They can hold hearings, but the answer to the Boeing question is simple. Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas merged and the accountants at M-D took over the company displacing the engineers whose focus on quality and safety had made Boeing the foremost civil aviation company in the world. Everything else follows from that. Full disclosure, I don't now and have not in the past owned stock in either company and don't have a horse in the race.
Thanks for the recommendation Victoria. Everybody outsources and subcontracts, but Boeing for years did all the engineering in house and that's what set them apart.
I’d like to make a suggestion. Some young people I know drafted a letter to their grandmother (who had been seduced by FOXnews) in 2020. The letter was loving, respectful, and talked about all the reasons they hoped she would vote for Biden. I have their permission to use it as the basis of a template that anyone who wants to write to a family member could build on. If I did that would you consider adding it to the newsletter one of these days? I feel like children or grandchildren are the only people who can make contact sometimes. Thanks for considering it, and as always thank you for giving us real tools to work with.
This essay was published last Thursday on Protect Democracy's new blog If You Can Keep It, and it offers concrete reasons for optimism in the face of everything that's troubling America politically: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/on-optimism
Jess I highly recommend you turn off comments in your new newsletter. Those of us who want to help will do the actions we agree with and pass over the ones we don’t. You can’t please everyone and I don’t see how comments will help in this charged environment.
A while back you shared a tracker of Biden accomplishments by state and by bill. This is truly great and useful info, but I cannot seem to find the link. Can you please share that again? I’m sure at this point MANY
more accomplishments are listed and we can all use a reminder about this great resource. Thanks for all you do! I read your newsletter religiously and use it as a guide for my activism.
I'll wait to see what you write in carry the world, but if there anything antisemitic and supportive of terrorists (even being silent about them), then I'll have to unsubscribe from all your content.
Israel is a country in trauma from hostage taking (and holding), beheadings, rape, etc. There must be accountability on both sides, not one sided-ness.
The progresssive movement in the US is really very wrong as they do not hold Arabs accountable for their actions. E.g., we have now seen UN employees participate in terrorist activities and support, and the progressive movement does not support Jews (by being silent to their suffering), instead continuing to support the terrorists.
I’m doubtful RK is a real person. Presents more like a foreigner paid to sow division. They are all over social media of late. Hope our government can figure out how to stem the tide with this coming election ramping up.
for clarity - IMO - there is no question Israel needs a new government. The far right there are just as crazy as MAGA. I am not a Netanyahu supporter. But, the progressive left in the US have betrayed the Jews and supported terrorists. I've seen all of the following first hand: Jews being shouted down at local city council hearings, ceasefire resolutions separating communities/neighbors because of their implied antisemitism, posters advocating assassination of Jewish public figures, tearing down of posters with Jewish hostages, teach-ins that advocate destruction of Israel, and Jewish families moving their children from antisemitic public elementary schools (one school said Jews helped kill George Floyd). You are asking me to be silent about all the damage done by the progressive left, and I will not.
RK, I'm with you on this. I think many--not all, but many--progressives have behaved badly in this situation. The kind of behavior you're describing is NEVER OK.
Hi, everyone, it's OK! RK, I have talked about this several times in the newsletter--perhaps you're newer here? Anyway, I think my readers are defending me because I've been very careful NOT to take an extreme stance on this fight--on either side. I have actually elected not to say anything about it at all for most of the last four months, because I 'm not a foreign policy expert and because I want us to stay focused on beating Trump. Having said that, I primarily follow J Street for my actions on the Middle East so if you're OK with them you'll like my actions. And again, the new newsletter is NOT meant to be only, or even primarily, about the Middle East! It's for all things global in scope, since those don't always fit in a newsletter about American elections and politics.
Jess is working her ass off to make the world a better place and tries to give us tools to help. If you don’t like any of her opinions and calls to action that’s fine but accusing her of antisemitism is ridiculous. I can think of few people who approach the mess in the Middle East with as much empathy and humility as Jess. Jess please know most of us fully support you!
I think you need to re-read my post. I did not accuse her of anything, and said I would wait to see what she wrote. But clearly, antisemitism does not make the world a better place.
I read your post. My point was that nothing Jess says could ever be credibly accused as antisemitic, even if you don’t agree with it. Also using inflammatory language such as “it has better” is very confrontational and not helpful.
Thank you for the scripts for calling our congresspeople!
Always!
They can hold hearings, but the answer to the Boeing question is simple. Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas merged and the accountants at M-D took over the company displacing the engineers whose focus on quality and safety had made Boeing the foremost civil aviation company in the world. Everything else follows from that. Full disclosure, I don't now and have not in the past owned stock in either company and don't have a horse in the race.
Totally. Matt Stoller from "Big" talks a lot abut this--do you read him? he's been SO GOOD on Boeing.
I do, Matt is quite good.
I agree.
A lot of Boeing's parts are out
sourced to different sub-contractors all over the
place.
Want a good read on Boeing?
"Flying Blind" by Peter Robinson.
And Matt Stoller has been writing about it in "Big." And the Lever, too.
Thanks for the recommendation Victoria. Everybody outsources and subcontracts, but Boeing for years did all the engineering in house and that's what set them apart.
Yes and now it's a mess and costing them their reputation.
Absolutely.
I’d like to make a suggestion. Some young people I know drafted a letter to their grandmother (who had been seduced by FOXnews) in 2020. The letter was loving, respectful, and talked about all the reasons they hoped she would vote for Biden. I have their permission to use it as the basis of a template that anyone who wants to write to a family member could build on. If I did that would you consider adding it to the newsletter one of these days? I feel like children or grandchildren are the only people who can make contact sometimes. Thanks for considering it, and as always thank you for giving us real tools to work with.
Ooh I love this! Will you email it to me? hijesscraven101@gmail.com
Of course! Later today. Thank you!
Jessica, thanks for the google doc link for the Biden cards!!!! Facebook shut that access down on Heather Cox Richardson’s post.
What? What a bummer!
This essay was published last Thursday on Protect Democracy's new blog If You Can Keep It, and it offers concrete reasons for optimism in the face of everything that's troubling America politically: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/on-optimism
Oooh thank you!
Jess I highly recommend you turn off comments in your new newsletter. Those of us who want to help will do the actions we agree with and pass over the ones we don’t. You can’t please everyone and I don’t see how comments will help in this charged environment.
Please cancel
Herb you can unsubscribe at the bottom of every email. (:
A while back you shared a tracker of Biden accomplishments by state and by bill. This is truly great and useful info, but I cannot seem to find the link. Can you please share that again? I’m sure at this point MANY
more accomplishments are listed and we can all use a reminder about this great resource. Thanks for all you do! I read your newsletter religiously and use it as a guide for my activism.
Yes! It was from CAP. I will look for it and re-post in the newsletter ASAP!
What does “SSI” stand for? And what is it? 😬
Thank you, I wonder how many eligible people are even aware of these benefits.
I'll wait to see what you write in carry the world, but if there anything antisemitic and supportive of terrorists (even being silent about them), then I'll have to unsubscribe from all your content.
Israel is a country in trauma from hostage taking (and holding), beheadings, rape, etc. There must be accountability on both sides, not one sided-ness.
The progresssive movement in the US is really very wrong as they do not hold Arabs accountable for their actions. E.g., we have now seen UN employees participate in terrorist activities and support, and the progressive movement does not support Jews (by being silent to their suffering), instead continuing to support the terrorists.
Your newsletter better be fair.
Threatening a woman for expressing her views...how very Trumpy of you...
I’m doubtful RK is a real person. Presents more like a foreigner paid to sow division. They are all over social media of late. Hope our government can figure out how to stem the tide with this coming election ramping up.
You're absolutely right. He's only posting propaganda for attention.
you think withdrawing my support is threatening?
I think your wording is intentionally provocative. No one is forcing you to read Jessica's newsletter.
You probably should avoid Israel's Haaretz' newspaper which has featured harsh anti-Netanyahu critiques.
for clarity - IMO - there is no question Israel needs a new government. The far right there are just as crazy as MAGA. I am not a Netanyahu supporter. But, the progressive left in the US have betrayed the Jews and supported terrorists. I've seen all of the following first hand: Jews being shouted down at local city council hearings, ceasefire resolutions separating communities/neighbors because of their implied antisemitism, posters advocating assassination of Jewish public figures, tearing down of posters with Jewish hostages, teach-ins that advocate destruction of Israel, and Jewish families moving their children from antisemitic public elementary schools (one school said Jews helped kill George Floyd). You are asking me to be silent about all the damage done by the progressive left, and I will not.
RK, I'm with you on this. I think many--not all, but many--progressives have behaved badly in this situation. The kind of behavior you're describing is NEVER OK.
Hi, everyone, it's OK! RK, I have talked about this several times in the newsletter--perhaps you're newer here? Anyway, I think my readers are defending me because I've been very careful NOT to take an extreme stance on this fight--on either side. I have actually elected not to say anything about it at all for most of the last four months, because I 'm not a foreign policy expert and because I want us to stay focused on beating Trump. Having said that, I primarily follow J Street for my actions on the Middle East so if you're OK with them you'll like my actions. And again, the new newsletter is NOT meant to be only, or even primarily, about the Middle East! It's for all things global in scope, since those don't always fit in a newsletter about American elections and politics.
Jess is working her ass off to make the world a better place and tries to give us tools to help. If you don’t like any of her opinions and calls to action that’s fine but accusing her of antisemitism is ridiculous. I can think of few people who approach the mess in the Middle East with as much empathy and humility as Jess. Jess please know most of us fully support you!
I think you need to re-read my post. I did not accuse her of anything, and said I would wait to see what she wrote. But clearly, antisemitism does not make the world a better place.
I read your post. My point was that nothing Jess says could ever be credibly accused as antisemitic, even if you don’t agree with it. Also using inflammatory language such as “it has better” is very confrontational and not helpful.
read my other reply to hw - I will not be silent about all the damage that the progressive left has done.
Jess has literally nothing to do with the examples you cite in that other reply.
Oh wow! I mean...sure?