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Today at a Glance:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded at 5:45 a.m. at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Session Hall, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm.
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Airline Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport. The TPO’s planning oversight includes all of Volusia County and Flagler County, with board representation those jurisdictions. The committee is responsible for reviewing plans, policies, and procedures and rank priority projects as they relate to bicycle and pedestrian issues within the TPO planning area. See the full agendas here. To join the meeting electronically, go here.
A Palm Coast Government Land Development Code Workshop examining amendments to the code is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue, Palm Coast. “These workshops are designed not only to present the proposed changes but also to give residents, businesses, and community partners a chance to share their feedback and suggestions,” said Planner Manager Phong Nguyen. “Public participation is a key part of ensuring the Land Development Code continues to reflect the needs and priorities of our community.” The purpose of the amendments includes:
- Aligning with the recently updated Imagine 2050 Comprehensive Plan
- Implementing goals, objectives, and policies from the Plan
- Clarifying existing code requirements
- Updating references and technical language.
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.
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]
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.
The 2025 News Service of Florida Above and Beyond Awards gala is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at Doubletree Tallahassee, 101 S. Adams Street, Tallahassee. Flagler Cares CEO Carrie Baird is among this year’s honorees. The keynote speakers are Shevaun Harris, Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration, and Rep. Allison Tant, the Minority (Democratic) Deputy Whip of the Florida House of Representatives. The event is emceed by Senior NSF Writer Dara Kam. The honorees represent a kaleidoscope of energy and industry – and a powerful model for change. They bring new perspectives to sectors as diverse as broadcast journalism, real estate, higher education, social services and lobbying. Whether bolstering research, modernizing healthcare or keeping communities informed, this year’s honorees are undeniably making the Sunshine State a more dynamic and prosperous place.
Notably: A Facebook page called “Daytona Beach FL” a few days ago carried the following message, ostensibly directed at students at Daytona State: “Start a Charlie Kirk Christian group iat Daytona State College. The College Professor and Group Advisor is ready and able to help set up this group. The purpose of this group is to host speakers at the campus and to train students to “Be like Charlie Kirk” Student will be trained to answers questions about the Bible and other topics. Yes Charlie Kirk’s was murdered, but his message and influence continues just like Jesus Christ’s did. Message me and I will put you in touch with the Campus Advisor to start this group. BE LIKE CHARLIE.” To which I suppose Nikole Hannah-Jones’s article in the New York Times a few days ago might, in that Facebook page’s spirit of Kirk, be the appropriate rejoinder. She starts the article with a reference to Dominic Durant of Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose 11-year-old daughter’s school was among those ordered to observe a moment of silence for Kirk. “People were free to mourn Kirk or not, he said, but the state had no right to order his child and other children to honor a man whose words had often denigrated them. ‘My initial thought was, Hell no — there’s no way,'” though the district ended up refusing to follow the order. Hannah-Jones writes: “As a Christian, Durant also felt he had to address Kirk’s version of Christianity, which condemned and disparaged people who are gay and transgender. Kirk once posted, “The pride and trans movements have always been about grooming kids.” And, in another instance, he had pointed to a passage in the Bible that said men who lay with other men “shall be stoned to death,” saying it “affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.” This intolerance was not reflective of Durant’s own understanding of Jesus or the Gospel, nor the faith his family practiced. “I reminded her not to be a hypocritical Christian,” he said. “I told her, You know, the Good Book, the Bible, says you judge a man as he lived, not as he died.” Which leaves you wondering what part of Kirk’s version of Christianity would animate this potential group at DSC. I’m waiting on the Charlie Kirk clubs at Matanzas High School and FPC next.
—P.T.
Now this: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement:
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November 2025
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Aaron Kaplowitz
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting
Scale & Thrive 2026: Growth Strategies for Local Business Owners
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
In Court: Leigha Mumby Pre-Trial
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
When Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, bemoaned that only two of the 58 Democrats who refused to sign the resolution honoring Kirk were white, Laura Loomer responded on X by railing against “ghetto Black bitches who hate America serving in Congress.” Loomer is not merely some right-wing provocateur. She has the ear of the president of the United States and understood that such an explicitly racist comment in 2025 America would bring no political consequence. And while Trump has surrounded himself with people who have said racist things and maintained ties to white and Christian nationalists, the number of Democrats and esteemed American institutions that have engaged in the mainstreaming of Charlie Kirk demonstrates that espousing open and explicit bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the civil rights era. In some parts of polite society, it now holds that if many of Kirk’s views were repugnant, his willingness to calmly argue about them and his insistence that people hash out their disagreements through discourse at a time of such division made him a free-speech advocate, and an exemplar of how we should engage politically across difference. But for those who were directly targeted by Kirk’s rhetoric, this thinking seems to place the civility of Kirk’s style of argument over the incivility of what he argued. Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people and his racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated — like a position on tax rates or health care policy.
–From “What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed,” by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times, Sept. 28, 2025.
Pogo says
@Trump’s
… foreshadowing by Gert Fröbe’s Auric Goldfinger, in the 1964 James Bond film, is eerily on point. With an ugly wig, Fröbe would be good to go as Trump. Look at der harem of Pox News window mannequins in its cabinet and inner circle, and Melania Galore at its side — back to the future.
The rest of us: Do you expect us to worship you?
Trumpfinger: No, I expect you to die — ha ha ha…
Laurel says
Laura Loomer’s comment “”getto black bitches who hate America serving in Congress”” and Charlie Kirk’s comment about prominent black women not having the brain capacity to be taken seriously, is beyond hate. Where are the protests by Republicans condemning such people? Instead, I see worship and absurd comparisons to Jesus.
The uniforms of ICE, guardsmen from red states being sent to blue states, and bluejeaned volunteers, all wearing masks, should be white robes with pointed head covers that have eye holes cut out.
What’s the difference, other than being real?
This is not about immigration, this is the full intention of dividing us up through hatred, and calling it Holy. Divide and conquer. How to take down the U.S.A.
Sherry says
Here is a direct copy and paste of a email I just received from dear friends in Australia:
Hi Sherry,
We sit back in a country where we have peace and if not fantastic governance a system where our rights and laws are upheld.
That being said, we have a far right movement which is gaining some ground. All made worse by the election of Trump and the Israeli Right with the genocide in Gaza.
This has been very divisive for the World.
America has reached its use-by date, sadly.
It no longer stands for anything except a powerful man who is, at any cost, destroying the country for his own gain and that of a select few.
His sons are presently working their way through many Asian countries getting Governments to agree to assist with the development of huge Trump resorts and casinos for lower tariffs!!
Corruption at its best.
How amazing is it that a young bloke can shoot a man in the neck, who is under a canopy and 200 feet away and yet there have been 3 unsuccessful attempts on Trump, none on Netanyahu and none on Putin.
Marg and I despair daily about the state of the world.
If it is time for WW3 then so be it. Ukraine has to strike back and the EU has to back it. With the tension in the world and the situation in the States the globe is open to generations of turmoil. France is about done, the UK a melting pot, China has a crippling economy and Russia will soon have to constript women to keep fighting Ukraine while the sane people in the States try to emigrate to Canada or Mexico!
What will history write about Trump and the decline of democracy in the US? Certainly not the reality of electing for a second time a man, who not only behaved like a Year 9 schoolboy, wrote like one, talked like one, acted inappropriately like one and thought he was not only a genius but god’s gift to women.
Sherry says
Watch bondi lash out, wriggle and squirm, refuse to answer about trump photos with “half naked young girls” in the epstein files and that entire horrific cover-up:
https://apnews.com/video/democrats-grill-bondi-about-trump-and-epsteins-relationship-5092ea56cbdb46a1b5bc14140b1d9a00
Sherry says
trump and hegseth have presented “ZERO” concrete evidence that the boats ordered destroyed with 21 lives lost were ALL carrying “drugs”. . . take a good read:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has yet to provide underlying evidence to lawmakers proving that alleged drug-smuggling boats targeted by the U.S. military in a series of fatal strikes were in fact carrying narcotics, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
As bipartisan frustration with the strikes mounts, the Senate was voting Wednesday on a war powers resolution that would require the president to seek authorization from Congress before further military strikes on the cartels.
The military has carried out at least four strikes on boats that the White House said were carrying drugs, including three it said originated from Venezuela. It said 21 people were killed in the strikes.
The officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly about the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the administration has only pointed to unclassified video clips of the strikes posted on social media by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and has yet to produce “hard evidence” that the vessels were carrying drugs.
Sherry says
A direct video warning from Robert Reich:
Sherry says
58% Say NO to trump’s use of military force in the US!!!
Nearly 60 percent of Americans say the U.S. government should only deploy the military when faced with external threats, according to a new survey. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Wednesday, found that 58 percent of respondents said they believe the military should only be utilized for external threats, while 25 percent said they think the military can be used for other purposes and another 18 percent were unsure.
Laurel says
Thank you Sherry. Most of us are completely unfamiliar with what the rest of the world thinks of us. Now, we also know, besides Australia, what Canada thinks!
Skibum says
Thanks for sharing that letter, Sherry. Citizens of countries around the world are speaking out, horrified at what they see happening within the United States. It is harder to imagine a wider schism between the Statue of Liberty standing tall in NY and what it has represented for many decades… and the orchestrated and intentional violence, bigotry, cruelty and unconstitutional acts that this president is ordering to be carried out by masked thugs in our nation’s cities and states that he dislikes.
And republi-cons in Congress merely sit there like neutered, brain dead animals that have been programmed to do meaningless tricks in front of an audience and then ordered to go sit in their corner and keep quiet until their trainer brings them out for another performative dog and pony show. Disgusting!
And when more and more Americans stand up to the authoritarian, protesting the unconstitutional acts, the unnecessary federal take over of some of out cities, the bludgeoning and roughing up of people by masked thugs with no identification, our current authoritarian government secretly smiles because they use any protests as an excuse to be even more abusive. They try to claim in court hearings that cities need even MORE federal officers, MORE military troops on the ground in our cities, despite the plain fact that it is THEM who are sowing violence and disorder upon the American people.
The WH wants not only for this violence to continue, the idiot prez wants a dramatic escalation so he can invoke the Insurrection Act and take political power away from state and local officials in “blue” states, denying citizens their constitutional rights.
What he is after is COMPLETE control of the citizenry… he wants to turn all of America’s citizens into the same type of neutered, brain dead zombies just like his maga GOP members of Congress, who simply nod yes to any and all demands of a demented, criminal president who has no regard for the law, no regard for the equal branches of our federal government, and no regard for the U.S. Constitution.
It is a lost cause, I believe, to hope that the republi-cons in Congress somehow find their spines and stand up to what is going on. We need to hold out hope almost beyond hope that the Supreme Court will start searching under their robes, under their desks, within their offices, maybe… here’s a thought – just maybe within the U.S. Constitution itself, to find THEIR spines, find their way, find their vioce, and put a STOP to all of this madness before the criminal president completely neuters them and takes their power as well so he can become what he has always wanted to be… Amerika’s version of N. Korea’s forever “dear leader”.
Kennan says
Thank you so much for sharing that Sherry. Incredibly important perspective to remind people what the rest of the world is saying and thinking.
Thank you.