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Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Contractor Review Board meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Staff liaison is Bo Snowden, Chief Building Official, who may be reached at (386) 313-4027. For agendas and details go here.
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting at 9 a.m., first floor Conference Room, at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The Technical Review Committee (TRC) is a quality control committee that provides technical review of project plans. Staff Liaison is Gina Lemon, 386-313-4067.
The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.
Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on the topic here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room. If you have your own book, please bring it. All students of the Course are welcome. There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at [email protected] for location and information.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
Notably: There are a few counters out there counting down the days, hours, minutes to the end of the Trump reign, like this one (1,250-some days still. Fuck.) There are also no doubt–just as obituaries are written years ahead of a death’s dust-to-dusting–many a requiem already written to celebrate the end of the reign (a requiem more along the lines of Bruckner than Mozart of course: let’s not unnecessarily velvet the death in sublime beauty that makes you regret the dead, or excuse their deeds, or relate them in any way to anyone ever loved by god, i.e. Amadeus, if you’re keeping score of Notably’s pedantries). The obituary of Trump’s second reign might read like this: “The man who is the source of all the misfortunes of our country, is this day reduced to a level with his fellow citizens, and is no longer possessed of power to multiply evils upon the United States. If ever there was a period for rejoicing, this is the moment–every heart in unison with the freedom and happiness of the people ought to beat high, with exultation that the name of Trump from this day ceases to give a currency to political iniquity, and to legalize corruption.” The editorial would have been accompanied with a Clay Jones cartoon of Trump’s face on an ass. But here’s the punchline: The lines you just read were in fact written in an American newspaper. They were written in the Philadelphia Aurora in 1797. They were written about the end of George Washington’s eight years. I just changed the name to Trump. A cartoon that ran back then did feature an ass with Washington’s face. So beware. It may be a matter of when, not if, Washington’s 2028 successor ends up on Rushmore.
—P.T.
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September 2025
9/11 Tribute Climb at Hammock Beach Resort
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Meeting
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series
Florida Ethics Commission Meeting
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
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I abhor Wagner’s person and work; my passionate aversion has only grown since my childhood. This prodigious genius does not exalt so much as crush. He has allowed many snobs, men of letters, and fools to believe that they loved music, and a few artists to believe that genius could be learned. Germany has perhaps never produced anything both so great and so barbaric. (J’ai la personne et l’œuvre de Wagner en horreur; mon aversion passionnée n’a fait que croître depuis mon enfance. Ce prodigieux génie n’exalte pas tant qu’il n’ écrase’. Il a permis à quantité de snobs, de gens de lettres et de sots de croire qu’ils aimaient la musique, et à quelques artistes de croire que le génie s’apprenait. L’Allemagne n’a peut-être jamais rien produit à la fois d’aussi grand ni d’aussi barbare.)
—From André Gide, Jan. 25, 1908, from his Journals.
Joe D says
Wow….
As I was reading those “Obituary” words, Pierre, in the back of my mind.. all I could think of was “Yikes PIERRE…you better be CAREFUL, with all the Media CENSORSHIP of ANYTHING anti-MAGA, seen as a “terrorist” PLOT now a day’s, we could wake up one morning soon, and find you “DISAPPEARED!” Like in the REST of the AUTHORITARIAN COUNTRIES, for writing something so INFLAMMATORY about our current FEARLESS (thanks to the Supreme Court, and a COWERING, BULLIED GOP Congress) Leader…that was so ACCUSATORY!
1797….Huh!? George Washington…Huh!? How FAR WE HAVE COME, and HOW LITTLE WE HAVE LEARNED in the past 249 years!
Praying DAILY, that this country (and its FRAGILE DEMOCRACY) survives to the 250th year in ONE PIECE…after the last 6 month’s of unrestrained TERROR, and the trampling of CIVIL RIGHTS.
Pogo says
@P.T.
Notably, is an actual nightmare — it ought to have been prefaced with a warning notice, but — well done, ya devil.
We do live in interesting times: as in the venerable Chinese curse.
Johnny says
Nazis are ready! USA is a dead nation. Its a fascist oligarchy ran by pedophiles! The orange terror is total cheat an conman! Send him to alligator Aushowitz!! (Not Alcatraz the prison island) Aushowitz the concentration camp. Check out pics the German camps were actually nicer than the murikkkan ones! How many deaths so far republicans???? Even counting?
Sherry says
Thank Goodness “for now” the constitution and rule of law is still surviving. The “Ten Commandments” law is struck down again! This from the Associated Press today:
Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement.
Texas is the third state to have a Ten Commandments law blocked by a court.
A group of families from the districts sought a preliminary injunction against the law, which goes into effect on Sept. 1. They say the requirement violates the First Amendment’s protections for the separation of church and state and the right to free religious exercise.
Texas is the largest state to attempt such a requirement, and U.S. District Judge Fred Biery’s ruling from San Antonio is the latest in a widening legal fight that’s expected to eventually go before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sherry says
AGAIN. . . the vast majority of the latest polls show “Disapproval” of trump and the country going in the WRONG direction: https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls
Cue the Maga Trolls and their “TDS” chorus. . . LOL! LOL! LOL!
Ray W, says
Hello Sherry,
The Hill reports that during a recent guest appearance on The Mark Levin Show, President Trump said of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu:
“He’s a war hero because we work together. He’s a war hero, … I guess I am too. … Nobody cares, but I am too. I mean, I sent those planes, …”
Please tell me of your thoughts.
KEN says
In the latest attempt at union busting in this state, now this county, Sherriff Staley has moved the sheriffs dispatchers to county. They will loose benefits, this has happened while the a union was attempting to organize. He could have brought the Emt and fire under his wing AND SAVED THEM BENEFITS.
Ray W, says
Time reports that Beth Ford, President and CEO of Land of Lakes, Inc., asserts that many Americans lack sufficient understanding of agriculture, a sector of the economy that is “… the foundation of the food system, …”
Ms. Ford wrote a story on the issue of the state of American agriculture, which story Time titled: “A Storm Is Gathering in American Agriculture”.
Here are some bullet points from her article:
– 24,000 dairy farmers operate today, but the number will likely soon be 21,000, according to her dairy products company’s internal estimates. And the nation’s 400,000 farmers may soon drop to 300,000, according to the same internal estimates.
– In 2023, median income per farm household dropped by 19.4%. In 2024, median income per farm household dropped another 5.6%. Projected median income per farm family will be at a negative $328 per family if estimates hold, meaning that after “a year of sweat and effort” the average farming family will lose $328. “… [L]ess than 5% of farms will be profitable this year, for the third year in a row. In fact, nearly 90% of farm families need to rely on off farm income to keep their operations viable and to feed their own families.”
– Private equity firms are buying farmland to consolidate the land into larger farms. “In Iowa alone, 20 million of its 30 million acres of farmland are set to transition. When farms are owned by firms, not families, communities wither. Contract farming does not plant community roots.”
– There are more farmers 75-years-old and older than there are farmers under the age of 35. With Land of Lakes being a farmer-owned cooperative, she argues that coop members are “working hard to keep their farms in the family.”
– “Grain farmers today are facing the most challenging economics since 2009. Food security is national security. Trade lanes are shifting. Interest rates are high. Commodity prices are eroding. Labor is insufficient and inaccessible, and there is no certainty of a new Farm Bill, or the safety net it traditionally provides. Some of these factors are not new, but the complexity of the combination of issues, and the speed with which they are accelerating, is. It’s not just one thing. It’s all the things. Farm bankruptcies have roughly doubled, compared to last year.”
– “Labor availability and immigration issues are exacerbating those challenges. In addition, evolving trade policy has removed some traditional markets at the exact moment Brazil’s exports are strengthening and China is marching toward food self-sufficiency. …”
– Solutions?
“We need a robust trade agenda that opens market access for U.S. products. We need immigration reform that provides both border security and solves our labor challenges. And we need a new Farm Bill to provide certainty to America’s farmers in this volatile time. … We must pay attention to the gathering storm before it is too late.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
Earlier today, NPR posted a story about Florida farmers and the economic impact of a lack of workers to fulfill the farmers’ needs.
Here are some bullet points from the article:
– In the past four months, national agricultural employment has dropped by 155,000 workers.
– A Central Florida strawberry farmer who identifies as a Trump supporter and whose farm is located in a “deeply pro-Trump area”, agreed to talk to the reporter on condition that the reporter identified him as “W”, out of worry “that criticizing the president could cost him business”, said that he wants two things: “lower fees for the H2A visa and a path to legalization for workers.”
He said:
“They need to come up with like, letting these one’s who’ve been here for 15-20 years going in and doing their papers right. … I mean, they been here, raised their families. I know there’s some bad seeds out there. But there’s bad seeds everywhere.
“Lowering his voice almost to a whisper, he says that on immigration, Gov. DeSantis and President Trump ‘might be riding them a little bit hard.'”
– Florida Farm Bureau president Jeb Smith told the NPR reporter that:
“I think the American consumer ought to be concerned about food being a national security issue. … Anytime that there is a threat to not getting a safe, affordable and abundant food supply, it should be concerning to the American public. We do not want to be dependent on foreign countries for our food. That could be a very devastating reality. That is a dangerous thing to dabble with.”
Mr. Smith added that his highest priority is capping the costs of the H2A visa, adding:
“There is a concern about some of our workforce just not being able to function at full capacity. That’s something we need to be very cognizant of. When it comes to deportation, I’m confident most farmers in our country agree that we want a safe border, but we need a good workforce and we need it legal.”
– A second Florida strawberry farmer, who has been farming since the 1980’s after he immigrated to the U.S., asked to be identified as “F” out of fear of retaliation if he were to criticize the current administration, told the reporter that he intends to cut back next year’s planting to 35% of what he usually plants. He does not intend to hire any undocumented workers, and he can’t afford to hire more H2A workers, because the cost of an H2A visa has “been going up for years.”
In a normal year, half of F’s workers are undocumented. But this year, “[a] lot of the migrants have left. … The rest are hiding.” He opined: “The government is killing farming. … This is going to end us.”
As F spoke with the reporter, he looked out over his empty fields. He said that now is the most important stage for next spring’s strawberry crop — preparing the soil for planting. Nothing was happening in his fields.
– When the NPR reporter asked other Florida farmers about the federal government’s agricultural policy that was advocated by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who said that agricultural workers could come from the ranks of the 34 million “able-bodied” Medicaid recipients, they called the idea “ludicrous.”
Said the director of government affairs at the American Farm Bureau, John Walt Boatright, farmers have to post their labor needs prior to obtaining an H2A visa, so as to give American workers first chance to get the jobs. “The interest and the willingness to work on farms has not been there. … It hasn’t been there for a long time.”
Mr. Boatright argues for an “urgent” fix to the H2A visa system. He said that the Farm Bureau would also like to see a pathway to legalization for farmworkers here illegally.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I have not forgotten last year’s story about a Florida Farm Bureau spokesman telling a reporter that Florida farmers had planted fewer acres than normal in 2024 out of concern whether enough pickers would be available to harvest the crops when they matured. It was cheaper for those Florida farmers to not plant than to plant and then allow the crops to rot in the field.
Last year’s article came after Florida’s gullibly stupid legislature had passed a law making it a felony for anyone to drive an undocumented immigrant to church or to the grocery store or to work. Our gullibly stupid governor had signed the bill into law.
The reporter had talked to a Jacksonville-base roofer, as I recall. Before the passage of the law, he said that he had had 30 roofing crews busily working. He still had enough work to keep the 30 crews busy, but his workforce had been cut in half. He, too, argued that there had to be a way to make his workers legal.
An Orlando-area construction company had also had to give up business due to a sudden lack of workers. The problem was not that undocumented workers were being detained. The problem was that when a driver of an undocumented relative risked a felony arrest, then a whole extended family might be affected. So whole extended families were leaving the state to work elsewhere.
Ray W, says
Reuters reports that a Chinese state-run food group, Cofco, is expanding an existing Atlantic port facility located at Santos, Brazil that has a current export capacity of 4.5 million tons of soybeans and other agricultural products per year; it will be Cofco’s biggest export terminal in the world. The new terminal’s first phase of construction is in the testing phase and will become operational later this year. When the second phase of the expansion becomes operational next year, total export capacity will rise by 8.5 million tons to 14 million tons per year.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
A Filipino-American community publication known as Asian Journal News published on July 13, 2025, a story titled “CALIFORNIA CROPS LEFT TO ROT AS ICE RAIDS SPARK MASS FARMWORKER EXODUS”
Lisa Tate, a sixth-generation California farmer told a reporter that 70% of her workforce stopped appearing for work in the days following ICE raids:
“If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked — and can go bad in one day.”
In some California counties, entire fields of strawberries, lettuce, avocados, and bell peppers are rotting in the sun.
Workers told reporters that fear of detention or deportation has kept them from showing up for work.
Across rural California, small business owners such as produce vendors and restaurateurs report “plummeting” foot traffic that echoes the days of early Covid lockdowns.
Despite efforts by farmers to obtain policy clarity or temporary work authorizations, “rows of ripe produce continue to wither in California’s sun — unpicked, uneaten, and emblematic of a policy crossroads where immigration enforcement meets economic necessity.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
Yesterday, Reuters reported on the status of American exports of soybeans to China.
Here are some bullet points from the article:
– During the 2023-2024 marketing year, China purchased $13.2 billion worth of American soybeans, an amount equaling 54% of China’s imports of soybeans.
– In July of this year, China imported a record value of soybeans. But China has yet to preorder any soybeans from the upcoming American harvest. Instead, China is turning to Brazilian soybean farmers.
– Yesterday, the American Soybean Association sent a letter to President Trump, which read in part:
“Soybean farmers are under extreme financial distress. Prices continue to drop and at the same time our farmers are paying significantly more for inputs and equipment. U.S. soybean farmers cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute with our largest customer.”
The letter went on:
“The further into the autumn we get without reaching an agreement with China on soybeans, the worse the impacts will be on U.S. soybean farmers.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
An agricultural industry publication called Farmanaut released a story about 2025 blueberry production.
Here are some bullet points from the story:
– Due to climate change and unpredictable weather patterns, increases in pest damage and blueberry diseases, ongoing labor shortages, and complex supply chain disruptions, the blueberry yield may be reduced by as much as 30%.
– Blueberries require moderate winters, predictable rainfall and a frost-free early growing season. Both extended drought and excessive rainfall impact crop yield. Rising average temperatures can alter blueberry development and pollinator activity.
– Fungal disease and increased pest activity due to warmer winters impede harvestable yields.
– With the blueberry harvest having a narrow window of time and it being labor intensive, any disruption that reduces the number of available workers limits the harvest. Picking blueberries outside of the narrow harvest window means losses and spoilage of the crop.
– Geopolitical instability leading to unpredictable fuel prices and uncertain shipping lanes adds to shipping bottlenecks.
– Global blueberry prices may rise by up to 40% in 2025.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
According to the Leesburg Times, there is a nationwide strawberry shortage.
Reasons for the shortage include:
1. Unpredictable weather such as excessive rainfall or heat waves damages crops.
2. Powdery mildew, a fungus, reduces crop yields.
3. Growers facing difficulties in finding sufficient workers have reduced crop yields.
4. The current global supply chain crisis increases transportation expenses.
With strawberry crop shortages come increased prices. Consumers are turning to other fruits or to frozen strawberries as alternatives. Restaurants are changing recipes or adjusting menus to deal with the shortage.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
Agrolatam, an industry publication, posted in early July an article titled “Michigan’s Cherry Crop in Crisis: Signature U.S. Fruit Faces Historic Production Collapse”
Michigan’s tart cherry crop is expected to yield 30 million pounds, down from last year’s 100 million pounds.
Unpredictable late frosts and heavy spring rains disrupted the flowering cycle and fruit development. International trade barriers, soaring land prices, and a growing farm labor crisis make cherry farming less sustainable.
Traverse City’s famed National Cherry Festival had to import cherries to meet demand.
Wrote the reporter:
“As climate volatility intensifies and reliable labor becomes scarcer, the stability of specialty crop systems, from berries to apples to stone fruit – hangs in the balance.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
According to a Farmanaut article about the many and differing struggles farmers currently face, one issue is that labor shortages have impacted over 60% of large-scale producers this year.
Here are some other bullet points from the article:
– “American farmers saw a stunning 15% increase in input costs in 2025, encompassing essential fertilizers, seeds, fuel, and equipment. …”
– Global market instability due to war, trade tensions, climate events, and policy shifts have led to “wild swings in crop prices.”
– Profit uncertainties mean that agricultural lenders are tightening loan standards and underwriting requirements. Shorter loan terms are becoming more common.
– Due to credit quality deterioration and lack of cash flow, farmers are delaying certain upgrades and input purchasing.
– The average age of farmers is nearing 60, with few young farmers entering the fields.
– Bureaucratic delays in the H2A visa program can leave farmers without adequate labor during critical planting and harvesting windows. Restrictive and inconsistent immigration enforcement leads to additional worker shortages. These shortages are more acute in the labor-intensive fruit and vegetable regions across the country, especially in California’s Central Valley and the Southeast. These labor shortages have led to smaller harvests, increased spoilage, reduced farm revenues and farm closures.
– The frequency and severity of extreme weather events, persistent disease outbreaks, and pest threats have escalated.
– The U.S. farmer suicide rate is 3.5 times higher than the national average. “The emotional toll of financial strain, uncertainty, and repeated loss is staggering.”
Make of this what you will.
Just saying says
The GOP love to fondle the rules! So they can groom new ones!
Ray W, says
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a Current Population Survey estimate, based on 60,000 studied U.S. households. The report contained a caveat that the actual numbers may not be accurate because of a “greater reluctance by immigrants to participate in the survey or to identify as foreign-born. …”
The Center for Immigration Studies, which identifies itself as “right-leaning”, studied the BLS survey data from January to July. The CIS announced that the foreign-born population in the U.S. dropped by 2.2 million, with 1.6 million of that figure coming from the undocumented sector, the largest decline ever over a six-month span.
As the number of naturalized citizens in the U.S. increased over that time, so the 2.2 million drop had to have come from the ranks of the noncitizens, either documented or undocumented.
Of those noncitizens who arrived after 1980 or later, there was a 10% decline in their overall numbers over the same six months.
According to the Pew Research Center, in 2022, more than 30 million documented and undocumented immigrants were part of the U.S. workforce. 22.2 million of the documented were working and 8.3 of the undocumented were working. Of course, this number does not account for the entire number of immigrants in the country, as not all immigrants are in the workforce. Some are homemakers. Others care for the elderly in their communities, outside of the workforce. Some are the elderly who have retired but are helping their children and grandchildren.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
That 10% of those immigrants, documented or undocumented, who had lived in the U.S. from 1980 on caught my eye. Just how many of those long-residing immigrants are returning to their homes because they are retiring from the American labor force, thinking it time to go home? Just how many immigrants leave the country on their own, for whatever reason?
More than a year ago, perhaps much more than a year ago, I commented on a 25-year study of immigration patterns conducted by a major northwestern university. I want to say the University of Washington, but I might be wrong.
The researchers concluded that, based on the large and long-term database, some 45% of all immigrants who enter the United States each year eventually leave, year after year after year, either by moving to another new country or by returning to their home country.
I then referenced a New York Times study that focused on immigrants who had been living in the country for decades. A significant number of these long-term immigrants raise their children here, but they steadily send money home for their relatives to purchase land for them and to build residences for them, never intending to remain here after retirement. When they retire, they move back home to live among family on the farms and in homes that await them.
I then found a Pew Research Center study of Mexican immigration patterns; it revealed that between 2009 and 2018, a 10-year span, 1,760,000 Mexican immigrants had entered the country, and 1,710,000 Mexican residents had left America to return home. Some of the returning Mexicans had to have been deported or returned, but how many had lived a life here and were ready to return to their communities and families in Mexico?
Troy says
The fascists don’t care they could house the homeless everyday at half the cost than one to deploy the guard! Priorities!! Gotta harass the homeless with your tax dollars!
Enough yet? says
This gang of truly horrible humans needs some accountability! GoP Terror must stop!! They have stolen trillions this year alone as families are suffering!
Band together to fight the Nazi takeover ! If anyone should loose rights it’s them!
Sherry says
Dear Ray,
By now you know me well enough that I see trump’s chest pounding antics through the lens of his clinical psychologist niece, Mary Trump. What I’ve always seen about him is an immoral, insecure, spoiled brat with syndromes of narcissism and megalomania. Just the title of Mary Trump’s amazing book, “Too Much and Never Enough. . . How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man”, says it all!
Laurel says
Ray W: I’m currently growing mulberries, Barbados cherries, plums, loquats, aloe, sweet potatoes, green onions, ginger, peppers, rosemary and basil. My blueberries are, so far, pitiful. The squirrels love me. I don’t love them. Starting a few veggies, like kale and collards this winter. Still, a trip to Aldi easily costs us $160 and up. Way up. It’s getting worse.
So, if someone asks if our country is better off now than it was under Biden (they haven’t lately) I will have to say no. Biden was giving us a soft landing. He was building roads and bridges. Trump works at building hate, fear and poverty, and separating us from the rest of the world.
It’s not good. We are supposed to feel a “little pain.” Pain that the ultra wealthy do not feel, with a giant tax break to boot. It’s amazing that many do not yet see! They will.
Sherry says
Dear Laurel,
I sincerely hope that you are correct. . . that “true Republicans” that somehow lost their way and turned Maga will regain their critical thinking ability and see trump for the despicable criminal he really is. I am not as optimistic as you are about that possibility however. One can only hope for a miracle, I suppose.
Certainly, I will continue to post “facts” not seen on Fox or Newsmax, etc. In the hopes that a lost brain out there will spark and “connect” to the truth.
Laurel says
Sherry: Since it appears that maga let Trump go on the Epstein files, which he NOW calls a “Democratic hoax,” they are simply too far gone to ever come to reality. This is a mindset that could only be cured by intervention like any other cult or addiction. What I hope for, is the rest of the party to have that “come to Jesus moment” and just admit, to themselves, that they have been had. That they fell hook, line and sinker for an advertisement campaign, and that they are willing to join back into the America that was always great. United we stand; divided we fall. It is a sad time for our country, and I hope it will pass. And yes, keep up the good work!
Sherry says
You also Laurel! Keep up the “truth telling”!!
20 plus years of 24/7 Fox hard right winged “propaganda” is an addiction that is extremely difficult to overcome. A roll out of “Truth Rehab” centers would be a huge blessing. But, then again, even hard drug “rehab” is really difficult to find. No wonder the majority of those polled say our country is headed in the “wrong direction”.
Miracles still do happen. . . I guess that’s what it will take!