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Weather: Showers likely. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening. Lows around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
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Today at a Glance:
Soul Fire, a Summer Sunset Concert, 6 p.m. at Daytona State College’s Palm Coast Campus Amphitheater, 3000 Palm Coast Parkway, $25 to $35, benefiting Grace Community Food Pantry, a concert produced by Flagler Broadcasting. Food trucks starting at 5 p.m.
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are: Hop on for stories and songs with Miss Doris.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
Notably: I’m not much for outright defiance of law enforcement as I am for civil disobedience when necessary. But when it comes to paramilitary forces like ICE and like-minded goonery, I’m all for civil resistance of the type displayed in this clip, and described in this piece from a local TV station: “Shockwaves are still rippling through the tight-knit San Diego neighborhood of South Park after ICE agents stormed local restaurants on Friday afternoon. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Nexstar’s KSWB/KUSI that ICE agents conducted two worksite enforcement operations at Buona Forchetta and Enoteca Buona Forchetta restaurants in South Park on Friday. Renato Ametrano, the general manager of Buona Forchetta in South Park, told KSWB/KUSI that ICE agents showed up at his restaurant with a warrant around 4 p.m. before the restaurant opened and put all 15 workers in handcuffs before releasing most of them. Ametrano said he was arrested, too.” This resonates especially because my own daughter is having to train staff at restaurants in Phoenix on what to do in case of a raid, though whether she was affected by this or not, the outrage remains. These aren’t police raids. They’re military raids by goons as if dressed for streets in Mogadishu, but in our neighborhoods, chasing after people on the job, feeding their families, doing jobs white Americans don’t want to do, and keeping the economy going. Every clip, every day, is another degradation back to Palmer Raid America, on a more terroristic scale than A. Mitchell Palmer ever achieved: The Palmer raids netted just 1,182 people. (See below.) America was outraged then. It’s comatose now. Except in San Diego, what was once hothouse Republican country. I see an ICE version of the Kent State massacre ahead.
—P.T.
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June 2025
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
For the full calendar, go here.
These arrests have gone down in history as the Palmer Raids, but they really should be called the Hoover Raids, because it was Palmer’s determined deputy, quietly wielding an influence beyond his years, whose Radical Division had drawn up the lists and orchestrated the close coordination with local police departments. Starting at 9:00 p.m. in each time zone, the raiders targeted offices and members of the Union of Russian Workers in more than a dozen cities in the Northeast and Midwest. Follow-up raids continued for several days. Altogether, 1,182 people were arrested, most without warrants. Raiders briefly detained, questioned, and sometimes roughed up a far-larger number, and then let them go.
–From Adam Hochschild’s American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (2022).
Pogo says
@trump time — baby.
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
Back to the future…
[email protected] says
Stop the orange terrorist and his concentration camps!!
Skibum says
I’ll be gobbling up some yummy TACOs along with a refreshing beverage, celebrating NO KINGS day on the 14th. No convicted felon dictator’s military parade for me. And I’m reminding all veterans that not one of them should be encouraging, supporting, or ESPECIALLY saluting a draft dodging coward who wants his own strong man military parade just like Kim Jong Un demands every years so his poor N. Korean citizens who have nothing can jump up and down and clap at him so they don’t get the firing squad for “treason”. No American president, or at least honest and ethical ones, need to have a military parade in their honor! In our nation’s long history, such nonsense has NEVER happened or even been considered… at least not until the cowardly man-child demanded it as an obscene honorific so he could stand there and see America’s military might pass by and soldiers saluting the imbecilic buffoon. Disgusting! So have a TACO or two and join the sane who won’t be participating in such frivolous and unnecessary displays of force, because WE the people know that those who have the power and might to defend democracy BEVER need to put it on display for anyone’s ego trip.
Ed P says
Disinformation Warning: The commenter, as is often the case, is incorrect. ICE is in fact conducting raids even in courthouses, in violation of state laws and local ordinances, and repeatedly falsely arresting individuals, including US citizens, operating traffic stops that have little to distinguish them from checkpoints, in conjunction with collaborationist local law enforcement, conducting false arrests with those checkpoints as well, lying about its arrests, and of course evading due process on a massive scale. Read accordingly. Do not use this site to spread disinformation.–FL
Ice does not conduct raids or sweeps and does not operate roadblocks or checkpoints.
Those terms evoke images of indiscriminate targeting. ICE investigates and conducts targeted arrests. Many non criminal illegal immigrants will get arrested along with the criminals while associating with the targeted suspects. That’s true. The non criminals unauthorized immigrants will be deported as well.
If the sanctuary cities and activists followed the law and cooperated with ICE by simply holding the criminals for ICE, maybe fewer of these spectacle arrests would occur.
ICE agents are well trained individuals unlike the National Guard deployed to Kent State. Some Kent State guardsmen were as young as 19 making the average age around 25. They were not properly trained or prepared for that assignment. They are part timers.
Being detained, cuffed or not is not arrested.
I doubt a “Kent State Event” would occur with ICE. Thus far, they along with border agents have proven to be professionals tasked with an unenviable job.
Laurel says
Ed P continues to attempt to make our current microphone blowing President, and Republican spineless politicians, look normal.
Skibum says
Skibum says
All of Trump’s tanks have now assembled in D.C. to tear up the streets. The military masses are polishing their medals and boots, practicing their marching and formations so they can give the convicted felon draft dodging buffoon his multi-million dollar, unnecessary birthday parade on No Kings Day. Stock up on your taco fixings and don’t forget to pick up some Cheetos while America turns it’s back on the pretentious, pompous president who needs constant adulation to pacify his huge ego while he destroys nearly every vestige of American democracy and pisses all over the U.S. Constitution. God, we hate Trump!!!
Sherry says
More on trump’s bribery, future trump towers and crypto= the US Presidency is trump’s “cash cow”. . . This from Robert Reich:
A technology trail now leads from the United States to oil-producing nations and then to China.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates have been granting Trump personal favors. Their presumed goal is to get access to American technology.
Qatar has given Trump a luxury jet, a “palace in the sky.” (It’s to him personally. No subsequent president will be able to use it.)
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has invested $2 billion in Jared Kushner’s private equity firm. And Dar Global, a Saudi luxury developer, is partnering with the Trump Organization on at least three projects across the Middle East, including a Trump Tower Jeddah, another in Riyadh, and a Trump International Hotel and luxury golf development in Oman.
Trump’s family crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, recently announced that its so-called “stablecoin” — with Trump’s likeness all over it — will be used by the United Arab Emirates to make a $2 billion business deal with Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world. The deal will generate hundreds of millions of dollars more for the Trump family.
What do Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE get from all these deals? All are seeking to diversify their economies away from oil by boosting their technology sectors.
Trump is granting them greater access to advanced technologies from the United States, including advanced semiconductors from companies like Nvidia and AMD.
Yet at the same time, these nations are strengthening their strategic partnerships with China in artificial intelligence, advanced computing, and quantum information technology.
They’ve entered into joint ventures with Chinese counterparts for producing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and AI-related projects, including the development of smart cities and AI-powered infrastructure.
Here’s another back door to China: Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who’s based in Hong Kong.
Sun is the largest holder of Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin. His $23-million investment has put him into the exclusive circle of investors who were invited to a private VIP dinner with Trump on May 22.
Until Trump’s election win, the 34-year-old entrepreneur was in the sights of U.S. authorities and persona non grata in much of the U.S. crypto industry. His company. Tron, which operates a blockchain network with the same name, has been a popular channel for crypto’s criminal fraternity to move funds.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network wrote in a private 2023 report that Tron was “growing in popularity among illicit actors.” By last year, more than half of all illegal crypto activity — some $26 billion — took place on the network.
Sun faced charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which in 2023 accused him of fraudulently manipulating the market for Tron’s TRX token. The Justice Department had been investigating Sun for suspected financial crimes, people familiar with the case said. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan requested information from Sun in 2021 and continued gathering evidence through at least 2023, some of the people said, causing him to avoid travel to the U.S. over concerns about a possible arrest warrant.
But now? The SEC asked a court in February to pause its lawsuit, and most of the other investigations are on the way to being closed.
Is it possible that Sun’s Tron network will become a means for China to move funds in pursuit of advanced technology from the United States? Of course.
While America’s front doors are closing to China, back doors are opening in the form of personal payoffs to Trump that result in alternative routes for America’s advanced technology to reach China.
Officially, Trump is closing America’s front doors so China doesn’t get our critical technologies. Unofficially, he’s opening back doors to China that give it access to these technologies and make him and his family even richer.
What’s being sold? Who’s being sold out?