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Weather: Clear. Highs in the lower 90s. Saturday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
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Today at a Glance:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Peps Art Walk, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday, Beachfront Grille, 2444 South Oceanshore Boulevard, Flagler Beach. Step into the magical vibes of Unique Handcrafted vendors gathering in one location, selling handmade goods. Makers, crafters, artists, of all kinds found here. From honey to baked goods, wooden surfboards, to painted surfboards, silverware jewelry to clothing, birdbaths to inked glass, beachy furniture to foot fashions, candles to soaps, air fresheners to home decor and SO much more! Peps Art Walk happens on the last Saturday of every month. A grassroots market that began in May of 2022 has grown steadily into an event with over 30 vendors and many loyal patrons. The event is free, food and drink on site, parking is free, and a raffle is held to raise money for local charity Whispering Meadows Ranch. Kid friendly, dog friendly, great music and good vibes. Come out to support our hometown artist community!
Water Safety Event: Palm Coast’s Parks and Recreation Department hosts its annual water safe event at Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club from 1 to 4 p.m. Learn how to be safe while having fun at our Pool Safety Day! Through fun pool games, mini Learn to Swim lessons, and hands-on demonstrations, your family will learn the steps for basic first aid, CPR, water rescues, and more. Bring your family down to the pool for a day of fun and safety! Our certified pool staff will lead activities to teach safety in and around the pool. Activities will include pool games, mini Learn to Swim classes, provision of water safety information, and basic first aid. Participants will also watch as our life safety staff demonstrate water rescues. $2 for adults, $1 for those 17 and under, and for seniors, 65 and over.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Juxtapositions: It’s long been theorized and often proven that fanaticism and sexual repression are closely related. Many amateurs of mass killing, that American pastime, are “incels,” shorthand for “involuntary celibates,” though Jia Tolentino in her 2018 New Yorker piece on “The Rage of the Incels” argues it’s not sex they’re really after. The “subset of straight men calling themselves ‘incels,’” she writes, “have constructed a violent political ideology around the injustice of young, beautiful women refusing to have sex with them. These men often subscribe to notions of white supremacy. They are, by their own judgment, mostly unattractive and socially inept. (They frequently call themselves “subhuman.”) They’re also diabolically misogynistic. ‘Society has become a place for worship of females and it’s so fucking wrong, they’re not Gods they are just a fucking cum-dumpster,’ a typical rant on an incel message board reads. The idea that this misogyny is the real root of their failures with women does not appear to have occurred to them.” She wrote, notably, as JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, a salon version of that quote in a few parts, was being deified by liberals and conservatives, and many years after Martin Amis, among other things, had noted the connection between sexual frustration and Islamists who like to blow themselves up, taking innumerable victims down with them. “The more common pattern,” Amis had written of Islamist terrorists in The Second Plane (2008), “is to keep your sexual tension stopped, and work it off with religious rage,” a line I found almost identical to a reflection by Casanova, early in his memoirs: “rage took the place of lust.” (He was not referring to himself, though even at 15, we find in the same memoirs, Casanova is suggesting to an older man whose advances a woman was rejecting that he should simply rape her to bring her under control.) Robert Lacy in Inside the Kingdom, his 2009 study of Saudi Arabia, picked up on the theme: “Young Saudis were being taught to scorn what the West was giving them, while also being encouraged to blame the West for their ills. It was a prescription for trouble. Frustrated in their search for the support and self-respect of a decent living—which would also have enabled them to pay the high Saudi bride price to get married—these young men became easy targets for radicalization, sublimating sexual frustration into religious extremes.” But none of this is new. Nietzche’s hatred of women inspired many an incel, and the Crusades, that 200-year bacchanal of European barbarism over the Levant, started with that misnomer, the People’s Crusade, which was nothing more—and nothing less–than an orgy of rape and pillage across Europe by ragtag Catholic fanatics bent on massacring as many Jews and raping as many women and girls as they could before they in turn were cut to pieces in their first encounter with “Saracens” in Anatolia. The dozen crusades that followed may have been more organized and disciplined. They were no less of an organized gang rape, not just metaphorically, of the Levant, and the imposition of a template a millennium of western imperialism would follow, the 400-year Ottoman interregnum notwithstanding, and that Israel would replicate: an Arab’s life, man, woman or child, has never amounted to much more than an impediment to Western (and since Balfour, Zionist and Israeli) assumptions. It’s not always sexual frustrations that lead to rage.
—P.T.
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July 2025
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Concert Series
August 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
For the full calendar, go here.
If what incels wanted was sex, they might, for instance, value sex workers and wish to legalize sex work. But incels, being violent misogynists, often express extreme disgust at the idea of “whores.” Incels tend to direct hatred at things they think they desire; they are obsessed with female beauty but despise makeup as a form of fraud. Incel culture advises men to “looksmaxx” or “statusmaxx”—to improve their appearance, to make more money—in a way that presumes that women are not potential partners or worthy objects of possible affection but inconveniently sentient bodies that must be claimed through cold strategy. (They assume that men who treat women more respectfully are “white-knighting,” putting on a mockable façade of chivalry.) When these tactics fail, as they are bound to do, the rage intensifies. Incels dream of beheading the sluts who wear short shorts but don’t want to be groped by strangers; they draw up elaborate scenarios in which women are auctioned off at age eighteen to the highest bidder; they call Elliot Rodger their Lord and Savior and feminists the female K.K.K. “Women are the ultimate cause of our suffering,” one poster on incels.me wrote recently. “They are the ones who have UNJUSTLY made our lives living hell… We need to focus more on our hatred of women. Hatred is power.”
—–From Jila Tolentino’s “The Rage of the Incels,” The New Yorker, May 15, 2018.
Pogo says
@Jia Tolentino
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Tolentino
Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?
An old song; sing along if you know it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=song+of+solomon
Sherry says
More of trump’s atrocities. . . The latest from Robert Reich:
Friends,
I thought I couldn’t be more shocked and sickened than I already was, but what’s happened this week is truly horrifying.
In the Oval Office, before cameras and journalists, Trump openly lied to the president of South Africa about alleged violence against white South Africans. The Trump regime has also granted refuge to white South Africans while continuing to bar or deport people of color who desperately need refuge.
The regime told Harvard it can no longer enroll foreign students and that its existing foreign students must transfer to another university or lose their legal status in the United States.
Trump auctioned off a personal dinner to foreigners who poured money into his own crypto business. He has also accepted Qatar’s gift of a $400 million “flying palace” (it’s also just for him — no other president in future years can use it).
At Trump’s insistence, House Republicans have passed a giant bill that would, if enacted, be the largest redistribution of income and wealth in American history — from the poor and working class to the rich and super-rich. The bill includes a poison pill that eliminates the power of courts to hold officials in contempt for disregarding court orders.
In recent days, according to Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent of The New York Times, Trump or his team have charged, investigated, or threatened with investigation New York Attorney General Letitia James, Andrew Cuomo, Kamala Harris, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Bono, Oprah Winfrey, James Comey, unnamed “treasonous” Biden aides, the city of Chicago, and the Kennedy Center.
Trump seems to have entered into a new and wilder stage of authoritarian neofascism. No holds barred. Nothing out of bounds. Rapacious, racist, nativist, vindictive, corrupt.
If you’re also horrified by all this, know that most other Americans are, too (if polls are to be believed).
Resistance is more important than ever.
I feel enormous gratitude to the judges who are trying to stop this. Most have shown themselves to be principled, steadfast, and courageous.
We should also be grateful to the public servants still in their jobs who are standing up to this.
And to everyone else who is pushing back.
Grateful to all communities that are protecting their residents and neighbors from Trump’s vicious dragnet.
Thankful to all the people fighting his attacks on Medicare and Medicaid. Teachers, public employees, workers, and grassroots groups fighting his attacks on the poor.
To the professors, administrators, and students joining together to fight his attacks on higher education.
Appreciative of all who are planning to protest on June 14. It’s Trump’s birthday, on which he’s trying to justify a huge military parade using the pretext of the 250th anniversary of the start of the Continental Army that fought against King George III.
On that day we will join together to tell the world and affirm for ourselves that we do not abide kings.
The more Trump’s tyranny is exposed, the stronger the resistance. The worse it gets, the larger the backlash. The crueler and more vicious his regime becomes, the more powerful the alliances being formed at every level of society to stop him.
We will sweep vulnerable Republican lawmakers out of office in 2026 or before.
We will support groups like the ACLU that are taking Trump to court.
We will spread the truth.
Tyrants cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to them. We will not submit. We will emerge from this stronger than we were before, and more committed to the common good.
Be safe. Be strong. Hug your loved ones.