Öztürk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour Ramadan fast. That’s a horrible time to get snagged by ICE because they probably didn’t feed her until she was in Louisiana. She was already in Louisiana when a judge ordered that movement to be stopped. Doesn’t that sound familiar? My question here is, since a judge ordered ICE not to move her to Louisana, then why is she still in Louisiana?” Read the full Jones at Substack.
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Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly cloudy in the morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable. Chance of rain 20 percent.
- 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:
Election Day: Today is the final day of polling in the special election for Congressional District 6, pitting Democrat Josh Weil against Republican Randy Fine. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. You must vote at your assigned precinct. Find your precinct here. All registered voters are eligible to vote in this election regardless of party affiliation or no-party status. You do not need to prove your citizenship to vote.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, go here.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board consists of Carl Lilavois, Chair; Manuel Madaleno, Nealon Joseph, Gary Masten and Lyn Lafferty.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Notably: “Uncle Willie” is one of William Faulkner’s great stories, a superb story of ironies, humor and inverted morals from the perspective of a 14 year old boy idolizing Uncle Willy. Faulkner wrote it in 1935, when Democrats were up to some good fixing the cataclysmic 20s. But I think he had the Democrats of 2025 in mind when he wrote this: “It was like one of those sheep they would sacrifice back in the Bible. It was like it had climbed up onto the altar itself and flopped onto its back with its throat held up and said: “All right. Come on and get it over with. Cut my damn throat and go away and let me lay quiet in the fire.” Read that parallel to this passage from Richard Powers’s Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985), and we have a fuller portrait of our collective surrenders: “More subtly, every individual who gave in to the context of deteriorating trust contributed to it through his or her own omissions: the woman anxious over admittance to Oxford, the brickmaker in Holland, the German landed farmer, all guilty in waiting for history to blow over, guilty in assuming that death could never happen in their life-time.”
—P.T.
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December 2025
Holiday Plant Class Series
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Nexus Center Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting and Gala
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Florida Ethics Commission Meeting
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Holiday Sale to Benefit Area Homeless
Friday Blue Forum
Santa in Bunnell
First Friday in Flagler Beach
For the full calendar, go here.
Gen Z are an incredibly isolated group of people. We have shallow friendships and superfluous romantic relationships that are mediated and governed to a large degree by social media. … There is hardly a sense of community on campus and it’s not hard to see. Oftentimes I’ll arrive early to a lecture to find a room of 30+ students sitting together in complete silence, absorbed in their smartphones, afraid to speak and be heard by their peers. This leads to further isolation and a weakening of self identity and confidence, something I know because I’ve experienced it firsthand.
–From Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation (2024).
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