Author: Jim

An Exodus of Agents Left the Secret Service Unprepared for 2024

Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/politics/secret-service-staffing-retention-hiring.html?smid=em-share

An Exodus of Agents Left the Secret Service Unprepared for 2024

Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/politics/secret-service-staffing-retention-hiring.html?smid=em-share

A swing-state revival aims to transform “Donald Trump–supporting believers into ‘God-appointed warriors’ ready to do whatever the Almighty might require of them in November and beyond,”

@mccrummens writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/eau-claire-tent-revival/680097/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYd0E5r6nCPNXJ8ZV-i0Etms&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

“We have no viable path forward as a pluralistic society—none—without confronting the deterioration of the evangelical movement and repairing the relationship between Christians and the broader culture,” writes @TimAlberta:  

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/christian-nationalism-danger/676974/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTxFMLm0Xk4mDEv4dF2jbME&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social