The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, March 28, 2025

clay jones signals breach — From Clay Jones: “If only someone could have foreseen that being a host on Fox & Friends doesn’t make one qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. […] While interviewing Goldberg on CNN Monday night, Caitlin Collins said to Goldberg, “I want to start by getting your reaction to what we heard from Secretary Hegseth there, saying that ‘Nobody was texting war plans.’ Given you were privy to this group chat, is that how you saw it?” Goldberg replied, “No, that’s a lie. He was texting war plans. He was texting attack plans. When targets were going to be targeted; how they were going to be targeted; who was at the targets; when the next sequence of attacks was happening.” The only way the Trump administration can cover their ass on this is to lie.” Read more at Substack.

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Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Breezy, with a southeast wind 6 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. Southeast wind around 8 mph.

Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.

Today at a Glance:

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today: House Rep. Sam Greco. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.

The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. The meetings are open to the public.

‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre,160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, $30 for adults, $15 for students, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. Book here. Violet is a young disfigured woman on a transformative bus journey from her farm in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, seeking healing. Winner of Off Broadway’s most prestigious Best Musical award, this compelling narrative with great songs promises an unforgettable theatrical experience.

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, 2 to 5 p.m., Picnic Shelter behind the Hammock Community Center at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. It’s a free event. Bring your Acoustic stringed Instrument (no amplifiers), and a folding chair and join other local amateur musicians for a jam session. Audiences and singers are also welcome. A “Jam Circle” format is where musicians sit around the circle. Each musician in turn gets to call out a song and musical key, and then lead the rest in singing/playing. Then it’s on to the next person in the circle. Depending upon the song, the musicians may take turns playing/improvising a verse and a chorus. It’s lots of Fun! Folks who just want to watch or sing generally sit on the periphery or next to their musician partner. This is a monthly event on the 4th Friday of every month.

The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.

What will be an invisible retention pond beneath the surface, in front of the Margaritaville hotel in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Notably: The Compass Hotel downtown Flagler Beach is progressing toward its opening later this spring or in early summer. It’s already remade the cityscape. It’s also remaking the scape beneath the city, in its corner. I was curious about that cavity in front of the hotel (“in front” is an odd term when applied to the structure: there is no real front, though one will eventually be designated as such). A swimming pool? A bocce ball court? A sub-level workout room for geezers? No, a retention pond built beneath what will be the hotel’s parking lot. The cavity will be filled by rocks, someone told me, allowing water to course through. Not quite, Commissioner Rick Belhumeur told me. It’ll be more like “something that looks like milk crates,” creating a water-containment area beneath the parking lot. It’s an interesting concept. I’m just not sure how well it will work in a barrier island increasingly prone to looking like a character out of a Karen Russell story (I have in mind the story where Florida is reduced to a few Venice-like spots of land).

—P.T.

Now this:

69°F

and rising

clear sky

Wind: 6.0 m/h Moderate breeze

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I mentioned my brother Kevin, and how he’d had his own illuminations and epiphanies, despite the much darker prognosis. We talked about trees, and how cancer had opened our eyes to the power of trees, as it had to so much else. And that while we would never wish the curse on anyone, we would wish on everyone the way cancer had cleansed our eyes and deepened our gratitude and altered our perception of time.

–From Neil King’s American Ramble (2023).

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