• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
MENUMENU
MENUMENU
  • Home
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • FlaglerLive Board of Directors
    • Comment Policy
    • Mission Statement
    • Our Values
    • Privacy Policy
  • Live Calendar
  • Submit Obituary
  • Submit an Event
  • Support FlaglerLive
  • Advertise on FlaglerLive (386) 503-3808
  • Search Results

FlaglerLive

No Bull, no Fluff, No Smudges

MENUMENU
  • Flagler
    • Flagler County Commission
    • Beverly Beach
    • Flagler History
    • Mondex/Daytona North
    • The Hammock
    • Tourist Development Council
    • Marineland
  • Palm Coast
    • Palm Coast City Council
    • Palm Coast Crime
  • Bunnell
    • Bunnell City Commission
    • Bunnell Crime
  • Flagler Beach
    • Flagler Beach City Commission
    • Flagler Beach Crime
  • Cops/Courts
    • Circuit & County Court
    • Florida Supreme Court
    • Federal Courts
    • Flagler 911
    • Fire House
    • Flagler County Sheriff
    • Flagler Jail Bookings
    • Traffic Accidents
  • Rights & Liberties
    • First Amendment
    • Second Amendment
    • Third Amendment
    • Fourth Amendment
    • Fifth Amendment
    • Sixth Amendment
    • Seventh Amendment
    • Eighth Amendment
    • 14th Amendment
    • Sunshine Law
    • Religion & Beliefs
    • Privacy
    • Civil Rights
    • Human Rights
    • Immigration
    • Labor Rights
  • Schools
    • Adult Education
    • Belle Terre Elementary
    • Buddy Taylor Middle
    • Bunnell Elementary
    • Charter Schools
    • Daytona State College
    • Flagler County School Board
    • Flagler Palm Coast High School
    • Higher Education
    • Imagine School
    • Indian Trails Middle
    • Matanzas High School
    • Old Kings Elementary
    • Rymfire Elementary
    • Stetson University
    • Wadsworth Elementary
    • University of Florida/Florida State
  • Economy
    • Jobs & Unemployment
    • Business & Economy
    • Development & Sprawl
    • Leisure & Tourism
    • Local Business
    • Local Media
    • Real Estate & Development
    • Taxes
  • Commentary
    • The Conversation
    • Pierre Tristam
    • Diane Roberts
    • Guest Columns
    • Byblos
    • Editor's Blog
  • Culture
    • African American Cultural Society
    • Arts in Palm Coast & Flagler
    • Books
    • City Repertory Theatre
    • Flagler Auditorium
    • Flagler Playhouse
    • Special Events
  • Elections 2024
    • Amendments and Referendums
    • Presidential Election
    • Campaign Finance
    • City Elections
    • Congressional
    • Constitutionals
    • Courts
    • Governor
    • Polls
    • Voting Rights
  • Florida
    • Federal Politics
    • Florida History
    • Florida Legislature
    • Florida Legislature
    • Ron DeSantis
  • Health & Society
    • Flagler County Health Department
    • Ask the Doctor Column
    • Health Care
    • Health Care Business
    • Covid-19
    • Children and Families
    • Medicaid and Medicare
    • Mental Health
    • Poverty
    • Violence
  • All Else
    • Daily Briefing
    • Americana
    • Obituaries
    • News Briefs
    • Weather and Climate
    • Wildlife

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, April 18, 2025

April 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Trump vs PBS by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com
Trump vs PBS by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

To include your event in the Briefing and Live Calendar, please fill out this form.

Weather: Clear. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the upper 50s.

  • 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. The show is focused on Flagler Beach’s centennial, with Mayor Patti King and City Manager Dale Martin. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.

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.

‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, with a Tuesday, April 15 performance at 7:30 p.m. Oh the story of the impoverished Dashwood family! Based on Jane Austen’s novel, this play follows Elinor and Marianne who become destitute upon the death of their father, who leaves his estate to their half-brother, John. Due to his wife’s interference, they must survive on a meager allowance.


https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1905830371952074842

Notably: No further comment necessary.

—P.T.

 

Now this:





 

View this profile on Instagram

 

FlaglerLive News Service, Palm Coast (@flaglerlive) • Instagram photos and videos

The Live Calendar is a compendium of local and regional political, civic and cultural events. You can input your own calendar events directly onto the site as you wish them to appear (pending approval of course). To include your event in the Live Calendar, please fill out this form.

December 2025
Monday - Sunday, Dec 01 - 07
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Holiday Plant Class Series

UF/IFAS Extension Flagler County
Sunday, Dec 07
9:30 am - 10:25 am

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students

Grace Presbyterian Church
grace community food pantry
Sunday, Dec 07
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
Sunday, Dec 07
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village

European Village
Sunday, Dec 07
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre

Sunday, Dec 07
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy

Daytona Playhouse
irving berlin
Sunday, Dec 07
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

Athens Theatre
al-anon family groups logo
Sunday, Dec 07
3:00 pm

Al-Anon Family Groups

Bridges United Methodist Fellowship
Paige Dashner Long conducts Handel's Messiah in two performances in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)
Sunday, Dec 07
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Handel’s Messiah at Palm Coast United Methodist Church

Palm Coast United Methodist Church
Sunday, Dec 07
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
Monday, Dec 08
8:30 am - 9:30 am

In Court: Ex-Firefighter James Melady Trial

Monday, Dec 08
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Groundbreaking for Flagler County Fire Station 51

flagler county commission government logo
Monday, Dec 08
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Flagler County Library Board of Trustees

Flagler County Public Library
nar-anon family groups palm coast
Monday, Dec 08
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, Dec 08
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
No event found!
Load More

For the full calendar, go here.


FlaglerLive

“Age varies as widely as accents. Growing into a new body resembles learning a foreign language. Some inhabit their final years with the grace and ease of native speakers. Others retain the obstinate accent and diction of an earlier tongue, adolescents imprisoned on cytology’s Ellis Island. One waits for sixty to go instantly doubled over; another centenarian thinks ten nimble sentences for each one she speaks.”

–From Richard Powers’s Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985).

 

The Cartoon and Live Briefing Archive.

Support FlaglerLive's End of Year Fundraiser
Asking tough questions is increasingly met with hostility. The political climate—nationally and right here in Flagler County—is at war with fearless reporting. Officials and powerbrokers often prefer echo chambers to accountability. They want news that flatters, not news that informs. They want stenographers. We give them journalism. You know by now, after 16 years, that FlaglerLive won’t be intimidated. We dig. We don't sanitize to pander or please. We report reality, no matter who it upsets. Even you. But standing up to this kind of pressure requires resources. We need a community that values courage over comfort. Stand with us, and help us hold the line. Fund the journalism they don't want you to read. No paywall. But it's not free. Take a moment, become a champion of enlightening journalism. Any amount helps. We’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit news organization. Donations are tax deductible.
You may donate openly or anonymously.
We like Zeffy (no fees), but if you prefer to use PayPal, click here.
If you prefer the Ben Franklin way, we're at: P.O. Box 354263, Palm Coast, FL 32135.
 

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Dennis C Rathsam says

    April 18, 2025 at 9:22 am

    Thats righ, MAGA has a plan, filled with new ideas, a new way to get things done! We have a gifted leader, while the dems have AOC! Spreading lies, fear & disaster! They lost on the border once, now their playing footsie with an MS13 gang member, who beat up his wife. Americans voted to kick the invaders out, now the JACKASS party wants to fight for their rights! They have no rights! their illegal period & never should have been let in this country! Look at all the leaders looking to make a deal with TRUMP. And a great deal he will make. You see TRUMP,S plan is starting to show dividens,& the great giant dragon roars again!

    Loading...
    1
    Reply
  2. Pogo says

    April 18, 2025 at 9:45 am

    @More is more

    Loading...
    4
    Reply
  3. Jim says

    April 18, 2025 at 11:04 am

    I just don’t understand how anyone who believes in the United States can support the MAGA agenda. I just read where Trump, the President of the United States, is railing against Senator Chris Van Hollen after he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the El Salvador prison. To recap, Garcia was sent to that prison with no due process, convicted of no crimes, under a court order to not be deported and without any credible evidence that he actually is a gang member. Even Trump’s government as admitted he was wrongly sent to El Salvador. And the Supreme Court has issued orders for Trump’s government to get him back. Yet Trump acts like he’s in the right and an innocent man is in the wrong. Trump is ignoring numerous court orders on this subject as well. How can any thinking human being look at the facts and not be sickened by the conduct of this president?
    And his government continues it’s attack on colleges. Because, apparently, in the United States, it is no longer acceptable for institutions to act independently and disagree with the positions and actions of Trump. Harvard is under attack to the point now that Pam Bondi is looking in to having their tax exempt status revoked. Have they broken any laws? Have they violated the statutes which support tax exempt status for colleges? No. No accusations nor evidence of that has been presented. But they said no to Trump regarding allowing the government to dictate what is taught and who teaches it at a private institution.
    If Joe Biden was doing these things, the right would be screaming out loud. But since it’s Trump, crickets. And MAGA, as usual not getting informed of any facts, follows blindly along like this is good for our country.
    And, finally, our government is putting all kinds of pressure on Ukraine to completely capitulate to Russia or – per Rubio – “we’ll walk away”. Ukraine has been totally cooperative and Russia has done nothing but stall. Yet Ukraine is somehow the problem. Again, if this was Biden, MAGA would be all over him. But since it’s Trump, this is the new American way.
    At some point, MAGA needs to decide whether it supports America (you know, three c0-equal branches) or we’re going to go into full dictatorship mode. We are at that point now. Trump is not anything special. He’s in the process of doing the most damage any president has done since George Washington was elected. Just because Fox News says he’s the “4D” president doesn’t make it so. Unless “D” stands for Destruction.

    Loading...
    10
    Reply
  4. Greed of nations says

    April 19, 2025 at 12:53 am

    We literally have the dumbest person to ever hold that position. He ensured that no nation should ever trust our fascist nation. Murikkka only stands for greed and hate and for that must fail… sorry not sorry

    Loading...
    1
    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  • Conner Bosch law attorneys lawyers offices palm coast flagler county
  • grand living realty
  • politis matovina attorneys for justice personal injury law auto truck accidents

Primary Sidebar

  • grand living realty
  • politis matovina attorneys for justice personal injury law auto truck accidents

Recent Comments

  • Ray W. on The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, December 7, 2025
  • Ed Danko, former Vice-Mayor, PC on Palm Coast and Flagler Beach Cancel Holiday Parades as Weather Hijacks Santa’s Sleigh; No Rain Dates
  • Dusty on Florida Will Help Homeland Security Obtain Your Driver’s License Records
  • Charles. on Unless You’re a Developer, a Lobbyist, or a Fetus, Your Florida Lawmakers Don’t Care for You
  • Paulette H. on A Message From Lauren Johnston as She Returns to Assistant City Manager Role
  • Paulette H. on A Message From Lauren Johnston as She Returns to Assistant City Manager Role
  • Pierre Tristam on Florida Will Help Homeland Security Obtain Your Driver’s License Records
  • JimboXYZ on Florida Will Help Homeland Security Obtain Your Driver’s License Records
  • Skibum on Stop Calling Homosexuality a Choice
  • PaulT on Birthright Citizenship Is Hanging By a Phrase
  • Skibum on The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, December 5, 2025
  • Paulette H. on A Message From Lauren Johnston as She Returns to Assistant City Manager Role
  • Skibum on The Phoenix Declaration’s Serenade of Dog Whistles
  • Skibum on The Phoenix Declaration’s Serenade of Dog Whistles
  • PaulT on Birthright Citizenship Is Hanging By a Phrase
  • Atwp on Unless You’re a Developer, a Lobbyist, or a Fetus, Your Florida Lawmakers Don’t Care for You

Log in

Support FlaglerLive’s End of Year Fundraiser
Asking tough questions is increasingly met with hostility. The political climate—nationally and here in Flagler—is at war with fearless reporting. Officials want stenographers; we give them journalism. After 16 years, you know FlaglerLive won’t be intimidated. We don’t sanitize. We don’t pander to please. We report reality, no matter who it upsets. Even you. But standing up to pressure requires resources. FlaglerLive is free. Keeping it going isn’t. We need a community that values courage over comfort. Stand with us. Fund the journalism they don’t want you to read, take a moment to become a champion of enlightening journalism. Any amount helps. We’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit news organization. Donations are tax deductible.

%d