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Supreme Court’s Order to Return Wrongly Deported Man: Rule of Law Matters

April 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

People hold signs on April 4, 2025, supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

The Supreme Court has now said the order to facilitate Abrego García’s return is proper. But the high court also said the district court judge should further clarify its order, being mindful of the president’s authority when it comes to conducting foreign relations. The Salvadoran government seems to be imprisoning Abrego García at the request of the U.S. government.

‘Enough Is Enough’: An Open Letter to Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris

April 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris is misjudging the gavel's power, and purpose. (© FlaglerLive)

Aghast at Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris’s paranoid and accusatory performance at the State of the City Address this week, a resident asks the mayor for a reckoning with himself–whether he is truly up to the job of serving the community to the best of his ability, to do so within the requirements of the city charter, and to bear the title of mayor honorably and responsibly.

Foreign Accents Shape the Way We Interact

April 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Foreign accents can have a big impact on the way we interpret meaning. In our increasingly globalised world, foreign accents are an inevitable part of communication, but studies suggest they can create barriers, not just in comprehension but also in perception of the speaker and social interaction.

Why Is the President Undermining Libraries and Museums?

April 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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A few weeks ago, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), adding to a growing list of illegal efforts to bypass Congress and abolish entire government agencies. All staff at the agency were placed on administrative leave on March 31. IMLS is an independent federal agency that provides crucial financial support to America’s 125,000 public, school, academic, and special libraries and museums nationwide.

Universities In Nazi Germany And The Soviet Union Thought Giving In To Government Demands Would Save Their Independence

April 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Columbia University has been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.

Across the United States, many universities are dismantling DEI initiatives – closing and rebranding offices, eliminating positions, revising training programs and sanitizing diversity statements – while professors are preemptively self-censoring. While some universities may believe that compliance with the administration will protect their funding and independence, a few historical parallels suggest otherwise.

Lessons from Palm Coast’s Fuel Dump Folly

April 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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The push for building the ill-fated Belvedere Terminals fuel dump in Palm Coast was tied to a series of myths: that somehow Palm Coast’s overwhelmingly residential tax base is unsustainable. That its tax burden is lopsidedly on residential homes. That commercial and industrial development lowers property taxes. The premises are taken as gospel in this county and never tested. Not one of them is true.

Tariffs Will Not Bring Back the Glory Days of Manufacturing

April 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Donald Trump, digging a grave to the American economy on April 8. (White House)

There is a broad fetishisation of manufacturing in many countries. One theory is that it is potentially ingrained in human thinking by pre-historic experiences of finding food, fuel and shelter dominating all other activities. But for Trump, the thinking is likely related to a combination of nostalgia for a bygone (somewhat imagined) age of manufacturing, and concern over the loss of quality jobs that provide a solid standard of living for blue collar workers – a core part of his political base.

From Greenland to Fort Bragg, Place Names as Political Tools

April 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it. Names can send messages and suggest what is and isn’t valued in society. And the way that they are changed over time can signal cultural shifts.

Israelis Are Calling for Genocide of Palestinians with Impunity

April 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Thirty years ago in Israel, advocating for genocide could land you in prison. Not anymore. Israeli clerics and officials are openly calling for the systematic massacre of Palestinians–genocide–in Gaza. The Israeli legal system is ignoring the rhetoric.

NIH Funding Cuts Will Hit Red States and the Poor Hardest

April 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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NIH cuts will be detrimental to the entire country. But they will disproportionately hurt states that traditionally have received very low levels of NIH funding, the majority of which are red states. This is because such states lack resources to develop advanced research infrastructure necessary to compete nationally for NIH funding.

Florida’s No-Show Republicans Are Hiding From Voters’ Anger

April 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Something is changing. People are angry, auto-calling their representatives, making signs, demonstrating and showing up at town halls. But Republican representatives don’t show up, not any more. They don’t like getting booed. They don’t like facing outraged citizens. A few tried holding town halls. Did not go well. But hey, at least they actually held town halls. Nobody’s seen hide nor hair of Florida Republicans. 

Florida Could Target 341,000 Haitian and Venezuelan Migrants for Expulsion

April 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

An activist protests the lifting of TPS status for Venezuelans in Doral, Fla.

Florida leads the nation in the number of immigrants with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. Of those, 59% are Venezuelan and 35% are Haitian. Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem issued a termination notice that canceled TPS for Venezuelan recipients as of April 7. Then a judge intervened. But the judge’s order doesn’t stop the expulsion of Haitians.

Cory Booker’s Challenge

April 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Sen. Cory Booker during his filibuster. (C-Span)

The Democrats have been under intense pressure to find an effective way to challenge US President Donald Trump without control of either chamber of Congress or a de facto opposition leader. They may have just found one in New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.

In Flagler, Voters Cast Half a Million Ballots in 8 years; 5 Were Non-Citizens. Where’s the ‘Fraud’?

April 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Florida law treats drop-boxes like hazardous materials. (© FlaglerLive)

An executive order requires that all votes be counted by the end of Election Day. It also requires proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. The order relies on a lie: that fraud is corrupting American elections. Let’s not look far and take Flagler County’s recent elections to test the claim.

How Tariffs Wreck Trust in the United States

April 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

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What’s really at stake in the sweeping tariffs just imposed on American allies and other countries is trust – America’s long-standing reputation as a stable and predictable destination for global investment. And once that trust is lost, it’s incredibly hard to win back.

A Presidential Order Manipulates U.S. History Through the Smithsonian

April 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Of course, history is contested. There will always be a variety of views about what should be included and excluded from America’s story. But most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its darker chapters. The Smithsonian, as a national institution that receives most of its funds from the federal government, has sometimes found itself in the crosshairs.

Presidential Term Limits Are There for a Reason

April 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

No president other than Franklin D. Roosevelt has held office for more than two terms.

No one is supposed to serve more than two full terms as president, according to the 22nd Amendment. The only way someone can serve more than two terms is if they served less than two years in a previous term in which they weren’t elected president. It is worth understanding why the two-term tradition was considered so important that it was turned into constitutional law the first time it was violated.

Marine Le Pen’s Familiar Victim Narrative

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Marine LePen (Facebook)

Marine Le Pen, figurehead of France’s Rassemblement National (RN), one of the most established far-right parties in Europe, has been found guilty of embezzling funds from the European parliament. Le Pen is highly unlikely to be able to stand as a candidate in the next presidential election in 2027.

That Time Change Affects Your Body and Mind Longer Than You Realize

March 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Your biological internal clock is controlled in a small region of the brain called the hypothalamus. It regulates hormone release, body temperature and metabolism. So if your circadian rhythm is out of kilter, those things will be disrupted too.

When Canadian Snowbirds Don’t Flock to Florida, Costs Are More Than Financial

March 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 62 Comments

A Canadian flag flies as people walk along the boardwalk in Hollywood, Fla.

Every winter, hundreds of thousands of older Canadians spend the winter in the United States. But in recent weeks, we’ve seen many Canadian snowbirds shifting their attention to other matters. First, stories started to emerge from those who said they would no longer participate in this seasonal migration because of political events in the U.S. Another related concern was the weakened Canadian dollar. This trend has prompted some to consider selling their winter properties in the U.S.

Ukraine’s Minerals Explained

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Ukraine is often recognised for its vast agricultural lands and industrial heritage, but beneath its surface lies one of the world’s most remarkable geological formations, the “Ukrainian Shield”. These geological processes created favourable geological conditions for forming several mineral deposits including lithium, graphite, manganese, titanium and rare earth elements. All these are now critical for modern industries and the global green energy transition.

Our Silent Genocide of Transgender People

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

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The United States in general and Florida in particular are enacting laws that literally erase the existence of an entire class of human beings. Trump signed an order declaring that transgender people don’t exist. Florida is about to adopt a law that would let government employees dehumanize their transgender colleagues by refusing to refer to them by their preferred pronouns. It is a new kind of genocide: bloodless, to be sure, but no less obliterating.

Freedom of Expression, the Extreme Right’s New Totem

March 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Won with great difficulty by citizens against the powers of the State and the Church in the 18th century, freedom of expression is now brandished like a totem by the bosses of social networks and by the extreme right.

The Heritage Foundation’s Long War Against the Education Department

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The Heritage Foundation first called for limiting the federal role in education in 1981. That’s when it issued its first Mandate for Leadership, a book offering conservative policy recommendations. It renewed the call in its Project 2025, a conservative political initiative to revamp the federal government.

Bezos’s Washington Post About Face

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Journalists report news to inform the public, while editors and opinion writers analyze and explain news, putting facts into a larger context to aid understanding. Jeff Bezos is throwing that model of journalism out. Opinion and analysis in the Post will limit itself to one particular apparently libertarian viewpoint: what Bezos calls personal liberties and free markets.

What You Should Know About What TikTok Calls News

March 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Here are three crucial things to know about news you get on TikTok: What videos count as news, how they got to you, and what you should do when you see them. These are three of what media researchers know as the “5 C’s” of news literacy: content, circulation and consumption. While they can be applied to any kind of news use, they are especially important for TikTok, where anyone can create content, and the algorithm decides what we see.

Americans Still Believe They Live in a Compassionate Country

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Most Americans responding to a survey said compassion is declining but still strong.

A new study on the state of compassion in America by the Muhammad Ali Center, which the late boxer co-founded 20 years ago in Louisville, Kentucky, to advance social justice, found that the desire to help others still animates many Americans despite the nation’s current polarization and divisive politics. Cities with high compassion scores have more community engagement and civic participation than those with low scores.

Lawless Persecution of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Threat to Free Speech Everywhere

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Without a warrant or charges, plainclothes Department of Homeland Security agents forced their way into Columbia University’s student housing and detained Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, who had demonstrated against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. They then shipped him to an immigration jail in Louisiana, impeding his access to attorneys and visits from family. Khalil is a lawful U.S. permanent resident who hasn’t been charged with any crime. Khalil’s fate — and the larger battle over the First Amendment — concerns all of us.

Can Democrats Get Their Act Together Before Its Too Late?

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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For more than a century, Democrats were the party of slavery, states’ rights, and Jim Crow, but, gradually and imperfectly, became the party of civil rights, voting rights, and workers’ rights, switching places with Republicans, who once had a strong streak of social progressivism. For 30 years, Florida elected New South governors such as Reubin Askew, Bob Graham, and Lawton Chiles, leaders who believed in education, open government, protecting the environment — crazy stuff like that. Where are they now?

The Hidden Epidemic of Violence Against Nurses

March 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Nurses in the United States face a high rate of burnout.

An alarming 8 in 10 nurses face violence at work. As a result, health care workers are more than four times as likely to be injured by workplace violence than workers in all other industries combined. Despite these staggering numbers, the full extent of this epidemic may not be fully understood because nurses and other health care workers chronically underreport violent encounters.

Why Forecasting A Tornado’s Strike Zone Is Still Elusive

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Pinpointing exactly where a tornado will touch down – like those that hit states including Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama on March 14 and 15 – still relies heavily on seeing the storms developing on radar.

A Moratorium Won’t Help the Crappy Utility ITT Left Palm Coast. Painful Rates Might.

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Origins of a crisis: Waste Water Treatment Plant 1 in Palm Coast's Woodlands. (© FlaglerLive)

There’s no question that water and sewer rates in Palm Coast are among the most expensive in the state. That was true even before the City Council this week approved the sharpest and fastest rate increase in the city’s 25-year history. But neither a building moratorium nor blaming the City Council is a solution for a problem seeded by ITT, the original owner of the utility.

President’s Defiance of Court Order Fuels a Constitutional Crisis

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The Supreme Court is seen on March 17, 2025, one day before Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke of a president.

The president is flouting U.S. District Court Judge James Bloasberg’s order that planes carrying deportees must return to the United States. The subsequent legal back-and-forth, which is still going on, intensified so quickly and dramatically that many legal scholars say the U.S. is past the point of a constitutional crisis, as the Trump administration appears to be defying a federal court order, for which Boasberg may hold the government in contempt.

Israeli Politics Kill Gaza Ceasefire

March 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

ceasefire left in ruins after airstrikes on March 18, 2025.

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to blame Hamas for the resumption of fighting that killed more than 400 Palestinians on March 18 – “only the beginning,” Netanyahu warned – the truth is the seeds of the renewed violence are to be found in Israeli domestic politics.

Anti-DEI Rules Are Gutting Educators’ Free Speech Rights

March 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion have continued in the form of a “Dear Colleague” letter from the Department of Education to educational institutions – from preschools through colleges and universities.. The directive the letter infringes on free speech, misunderstands the law and undermines education.

Corporations Are DEI’s Great Hope

March 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Whether the many attacks on DEI – first from right-wing bloggers, then from the Supreme Court, and then from the president – will affect the makeup of Fortune-level boards in 2025 and beyond remains to be seen. But so far, these boards are diversifying and seeing the value in DEI.

Florida Lawmakers Are About to Roll Back Rural Protections in Favor Of Developers. Don’t Let Them.

March 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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The Florida Legislature is once again trying to push through legislation that would take away the rights of area citizens and local government to have any voice in the management of rural and agricultural lands. It is crucial that citizens contact their legislative members and demand that these egregious measures be stopped immediately.

The Sun Is Setting on Government Transparency in Florida

March 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Florida, the “Sunshine State,” once known as a beacon of government transparency, is growing ever darker, and the clouds are spreading throughout the United States. Legislators have passed more than 1,100 exemptions to the Florida Sunshine Law, and growing.

The Women Behind the Babylonian Captivity

March 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The papal palace in Avignon, where the pope’s court was based for much of the 14th century. Jean-Marc Rosier from http://www.rosier.pro/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The church may not have seen women as equals, but nevertheless, their work was key to the workings and finances of the papal court and its surroundings. The fact is made obvious in the archives by simply following the money. It was hardly glamorous work but necessary for the functioning of the papal court.

In Red and Blue States, a Surge of Laws to Protect Teen on Social Media

March 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In 2024, approximately half of all U.S. states passed at least 50 bills that make it harder for children and teens to spend time online without any supervision. Research shows that adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media have an increased risk of anxiety and depression. Almost half of teens have faced online bullying or harassment, with older teen girls most likely to have experienced this. Social media use has been linked to self-harm in some cases.

Saving Our Beaches Is a Collective Responsibility Like Roads and Parks. Let’s Each Do Our Part.

March 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Before the beach was renourished and the dunes rebuilt. (© FlaglerLive)

A Beverly Beach resident explains how protecting Flagler County’s beaches through the proposed county plan is similar to supporting communal responsibilities like roads, schools, parks and libraries: not everyone benefits from those services equally, but the services all play a crucial role in the local quality of life and the economy, and must be supported evenly. So it is with the beach.

Even Florida’s Naturalized Citizens Are Fearful of State’s New Anti-Immigrant Laws

March 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

For decades, many U.S. immigrants have received subpar health care, and asking about immigration status can make those disparities worse.

Nearly two-thirds of non-U.S. citizens and one-third of U.S. citizens who responded to a survey, said they hesitated to seek medical care in the year after Florida’s anti-immigration law, SB 1718, was enacted. Laws like SB 1718 amplify preexisting racial and structural inequities. Structural inequities are systemic barriers within institutions — such as health care and employment — that restrict access to essential resources based on one’s race, legal or economic status.

Brain-Training to Stave Off Dementia Is Unproven. Here’s What Might Help.

March 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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People can make changes throughout adulthood that can help prevent or delay cognitive decline and even reduce their risk of dementia. These include quitting smoking and properly managing blood pressure. Brain-training games, which claim to optimize your brain’s efficiency and capacity at any age, are unproven.

American Imperialism Is Back

March 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

A J. S. Pughe cartoon published in Harper's Weekly in March 1905, caricaturing Teddy Roosevelt and the United States, shown as Columbia. (The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University) Publication: Harper's Weekly, Vol. 57, No. 1465

Embracing traditional U.S. imperialism would upend the rules that have kept the globe relatively stable since World War II. That would unleash fear, chaos – and possibly nuclear war.

Severe Prison Sentences and ‘Truth-in-Sentencing’ Laws Don’t Work

March 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Prison doors close, but for most people convicted of crimes, they eventually open again.

Tough-on-crime policies are surging again, despite research showing they do little to reduce crime, particularly violent offenses. Research highlights the inefficacy and unintended consequences of these laws. There is no compelling evidence that punitive sentencing policies discourage individuals from engaging in criminal activity. And states without truth-in-sentencing laws have seen their crime rates fall to roughly the same degree as states that have the laws.

How Map-Makers Shape the Middle East’s Conflicts

March 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, different governmental and nongovernmental organizations and political interest groups have engaged in what can best be described as “map wars.” Maps of the region use the naming of places, the position of borders and the inclusion or omission of certain territories to present contrasting geopolitical visions. To this day, Israel or the Palestinian territories may fall off some maps, depending on the politics of their makers.

Lawmakers’ Circus Returns to Tallahassee

March 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The circus, also known as the Florida Legislature, is back in town. (Photo via FSU Flying High Circus.)

The circus is coming to town. Y’all might know it as the regular session of the Florida Legislature. Don’t even begin to think this year can’t possibly be worse than last year, when lawmakers passed a dumpster full of bills to make Florida worse.

USAID’s History of Good Works

March 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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USAID is a government agency that, for more than 63 years, has led the United States’ foreign aid work on disaster recovery, poverty reduction and democratic reforms in many developing and middle-income countries. A yearlong pause in USAID’s work on health, food and agriculture in the world’s poorest countries would raise malaria deaths by 40%. It would also result in an increase of between 28% and 32% in tuberculosis cases, among other negative effects.

English, Official US Language? Piénsalo Otra Vez

March 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

It's a small, multilingual world after all. (© FlaglerLive)

In halting its Spanish-language communications, the White House is ignoring the demographic reality of the U.S. and rejecting a long-standing tradition in American government of making key civic information accessible to the public. These changes, while mostly symbolic, signal the Trump administration’s unwelcoming stance toward Spanish specifically and multilingualism in general.

Firing Squads and the Disturbing History of Executions in the U.S.

March 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The firing squad chair in which Brad Sigmon will be strapped before three volunteers shoot him dead.

The resumption of death by firing squad is part of a morbid search for “better” execution methods. It comes amid concern over botched lethal injection attempts and a scarcity of the drugs needed to carry out such executions. In 2020, the first Trump administration expanded how federal execution can be carried out to include ghoulish methods such as hanging, the electric chair, gas chamber and, indeed, the firing squad.

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