Weather: Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 90s. 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:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
SunBros Cafe Celebrates the Life of Travis Sundell from 2 to 4 p.m. at SunBros Cafe, 301 Moody Blvd, Flagler Beach. Sundell, the co-founder of the Cafe in 2021, died earlier this month. “We will be gathering to share some of our favorite memories and stories, to laugh, to cry and remember a wonderful person who will be greatly missed,” the family posted on the Cafe’s social media pages. “Attire is beach casual.” See: “Flagler Beach Reels at Death of SunBros Café Owner Travis Sundell, 49, ‘Passionate Part of What Makes This Town Special’.”
Gamble Jam: Musicians of all ages can bring instruments and chairs and join in the jam session, 2 to 4 p.m. Note that in a temporary change from the regular schedule, Gamble Jam will be the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month through August 17. The program is free with park admission! Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, 3100 S. Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach, FL. Call the Ranger Station at (386) 517-2086 for more information. The park hosts this acoustic jam session at one of the pavilions along the river to honor the memory of James Gamble Rogers IV, the Florida folk musician who lost his life in 1991 while trying to rescue a swimmer in the rough surf.
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Notably: This remark by a young André Gide (he wrote it in 1896, he was around 27), had me–has me–happily puzzled, as with a geometric thought experiment I don’t quite want to solve: “I can no more be grateful to God for having created me than I could blame Him for not being — if I were not.” The elegance of the line is superior to its logic. I also wonder about those last four words, if I were not. Is he equating non-existence of god with non-existence of self? The two cannot go together. At least not in the logic of the line, though if Augustine were reading this, of course he’d equate non-existence with non-being: god doesn’t exist, then neither do you, in Augustinian certainties (the very certainties that are its Achilles’ heel). Maybe Gide isn’t going that way, and simply taking refuge in the nothingness of nonexistence as absolving him from blaming god for not having existed. Now, would Gide care to ask: may I blame god for existing? Here the date of composition becomes more relevant. It is 1896, not 1915, not 1918, not 1942, dates Gide will come to know, as we will come to know him through that same Journal where he wrote this line. I don’t know that the elegance of the line would survive the Marne, Verdun, Hitler, the Holocaust, Hiroshima. Unless, as is much likelier, I am again misreading. I always have Flannery O’Connor, that other Catholic, buzzing her truths in my ear: “Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.”
—P.T.
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Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
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“Skeptical as to the existence of unicorns and salamanders, the age of Machiavelli and Henry VIII found food for its credulity in the worship of that rare monster, the God-fearing Prince.”
–From R. H. Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, cited in Bertrand Russell’s Power (1938).
Sue says
Thanks for my first laugh of the day!!! You are saying what Biden and his administration did for 4 years!!! Lets not forget dear.son Hunter bribes from China courts saying to stop student loans but of course Biden kept doing! Opening the borders etc thanks again!! Also the plane isn’t Trump s its government plane.
Pogo says
Sherry says
https://www.google.com/search?q=kristi+noem+on+habeas+corpus&rlz=1C1UEAD_enUS1086US1087&oq=Kristi&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggBEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg5MgYIARBFGDsyBggCEEUYO9IBCDkwMDlqMGo0qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ef1bd117,vid:qPK41OPq6VY,st:0
Kristi Noem is a very dangerous “Idiot”!
Sherry says
Not to confuse the radicalized Maga members with “Facts”. . . the plane is a “BRIBE” otherwise it would stay in the defense department and not be part of trump’s library. . . This you will not see on Fox, it came from Newsweek :
President Donald Trump has accepted a luxury plane as a “gift” from Qatar’s royal family that will be used as Air Force One―but will reportedly continue to use the jet even after he leaves office.
Officials from the Middle Eastern country said the gift was between governments rather than a personal present to Trump, noting the plane was being given by the Qatari Ministry of Defense to the Pentagon. The Boeing 747-8 jet will be retrofitted to make it suitable for use as the presidential plane, including the addition of heightened security features.
However, the jet will then be donated to Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office, meaning he can continue to use it, according to multiple news outlets.
Sherry says
Again. . . Maga, you know that “Hunter” Biden was not President, right? OK. . . Take all the controversial ” stuff” from Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton (also not President). You people go on and on about those stupid things ad nauseum, literally for years. However, they absolutely pale in comparison to the horrific “Atrocities” the “Convicted Felon and Guilty Sex Offender” you put in the white house commits each and every day!
Please read this very carefully and then get back to me. . . 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.
Sherry says
Speaking of Lunatic Kristi Noem:
https://schiffnotes.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-kristi-noem?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true