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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Trump Dismantles Democracy by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com
Trump Dismantles Democracy by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Monday Night: Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy. Lows around 70.

  • 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:

The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.

A Flagler County Commission Workshop is scheduled for 1 p.m.  at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The commission will discuss the beach-management plan, the Industrial Development Authority and the comprehensive plan.

The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here. Meetings stream live on the Flagler County YouTube page. View archived meetings after January 1, 2017 here . View archived meetings before Jan. 9, 2017 here.

Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.



Notably: It is Monday. It is also the case that George and Ira Gershwin wrote “Someone to Watch Over Me” in 1926, and that it is simply one of the greatest songs written this site of the Oort Cloud, but for its tinge of unfeminist submission. They wrote it originally for a not-quite-0forgotten musical, “Oh, Kay!” (not to be confused with the subsequent Broadway porn fantasy, “Oh, Calcutta,” a play on words that depends on a little knowledge of frenchified asses). “Oh, Kay!” has gotten revived a few times over the decades, the last time in 1991, but not for long. The play version of the song was uptempo, according to Wikipedia, and was only later slowed to the kind of tempo we know today, that almost funereal longing for the unreachable, the unfindable, that ideal we are convinced is out there. This morning I was reading from the early pages of Retif de la Bretonne’s memoirs (Monsieur Nicolas), that funnier, deeper Rousseau of the late French Enlightenment who was also three times the Casanova that Giaccomo pretends to have been. Nicolas jumped everything that moved, and fills us in. But around 14 he fell in love with Jeanne, decided she was his ideal, never spoke to her, and spent the rest of his life longing for her. One of his 200 works is an entirely reimagined Abelard and Heloise, with him and Jeanne as the stars. He was fortunate. It is never as good to encounter one’s ideal as to imagine it. There would be nothing left to do upon finding it but to die.

—P.T.

 

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December 2025
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Saturday, Dec 27
All Day

Kwanzaa Celebration

African American Cultural Society Center (AACS)
flagler beach farmers market
Saturday, Dec 27
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Flagler Beach Farmers Market

In Front of Flagler Beach City Hall
scott spradley
Saturday, Dec 27
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley

Law Office of Scott Spradley
grace community food pantry
Saturday, Dec 27
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
gamble jam
Saturday, Dec 27
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area

Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach
Saturday, Dec 27
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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

Central Park in Town Center
Sunday, Dec 28
9:30 am - 10:25 am

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students

Grace Presbyterian Church
grace community food pantry
Sunday, Dec 28
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
Sunday, Dec 28
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village

European Village
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Sunday, Dec 28
3:00 pm

Al-Anon Family Groups

Bridges United Methodist Fellowship
Sunday, Dec 28
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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

Central Park in Town Center
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For the full calendar, go here.


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Nostalgia has nothing to do with an aesthetic feeling, it is not even linked to the memory of happiness, we are nostalgic for a place simply because we lived there, well or badly it doesn’t matter, the past is always beautiful, and the future too for that matter, it is only the present that hurts, which we carry with us like an abscess of suffering which accompanies you between two infinities of peaceful happiness.

–From Michel Houellebecq’s Submission (2015).

 

The Cartoon and Live Briefing Archive.

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Reader Interactions

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  1. Dennis C Rathsam says

    May 19, 2025 at 7:13 am

    You cant help IGNORANCE!

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  2. Bethere says

    May 19, 2025 at 7:35 am

    Trump is destroying your demonic Democracy and restoring our Great Republic. Get in where you fit in or get out!

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  3. Jim says

    May 19, 2025 at 11:50 am

    To: Dennis C Rathsam says, I could not agree more!!!

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    • Pierre Tristam says

      May 19, 2025 at 11:55 am

      Dennis has flashes of brilliance.

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  4. Ooops says

    May 19, 2025 at 11:55 am

    Was good while it lasted ! We’re fascist now! Add some swatikas to the flag you salute to!!!

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  5. Pogo says

    May 19, 2025 at 1:16 pm

    @Oh, beavis and trumphead commented first

    Ode to nostalgia

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADhKjNz8mI&list=RDOADhKjNz8mI&index=2

    “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
    ― C.S. Lewis

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  6. Sherry says

    May 19, 2025 at 1:56 pm

    @bethere. . . Why all the fear, anger and hate? Suggest the counseling you obviously need ASAP!

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  7. Sherry says

    May 19, 2025 at 3:07 pm

    Right On Pierre and Jim!

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  8. Laurel says

    May 19, 2025 at 5:18 pm

    I’m trying to figure out where Bethere “fit in” before Trump ran for President. Surely it wasn’t the U.S.A.!

    Dennis would require an intervention where hired specialists pull up in a car, drag him off to a room somewhere, and deprogram him.

    Do people study history at all anymore?

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  9. The dude says

    May 19, 2025 at 7:14 pm

    Never heard democracy being described as “demonic”.

    Thats a MAGA first.

    Totally on brand of course.

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  10. Laurel says

    May 20, 2025 at 3:11 pm

    Dude: Yeah, I don’t know. “Bethere” is a bit off…
    Sounds like a call to something. Maybe trolling for more than fish.

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