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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 83. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 65.
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Today at a Glance:
City Repertory Theatre Retrospective Concert, 3 p.m. at City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, B-207, Palm Coast. Tickets are $25 adults and $15 students, available at crtpalmcoast.com, by calling the box office at 386-585-9415, or at the door. It is the the first of three “Evening With . . .” concerts, which will feature songs from the musicals CRT has staged over the past 14 years. City Rep veterans Laniece Rose (Fagundes), Benjamin Beck and Denise Elisha will perform songs from “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,” “Cabaret,” “I Do! I Do!,” “Avenue Q,” “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and other musicals.
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.
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]
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.
Readings: Le Monde, the French daily, on Oct. 12 ran an extensive piece on the Charlie Kirk effect across Europe. Note the directness: “On Wednesday, September 10, Europe learned of the death of an unknown man. That day, at 12:23 Mountain Time, 8:23 PM in Brussels, a 31-year-old man was shot in the throat by one of the approximately 400 million firearms in circulation in the United States, whose free possession and use he had so often defended. … Charlie Kirk was one of the most strategic propagandists of the American counterrevolution. A debate organizer and podcast host with a smooth face and affable manner, Kirk targeted young people. Radical, openly racist and sexist, he had managed over the course of his career to rally powerful Christian nationalist donors, soon gaining the trust of Donald Trump. His assassination would provide the American president and the new power in Washington with the “martyr” he needed. In death, Kirk helped divide America in two: the followers of “Charlie” on one side, and his enemies on the other. To these, the enemies of truth, the homeland, and God, at the religious and political ceremony organized in Arizona to honor him on September 21, the White House’s chief ideologue, Stephen Miller, would declare: “You are nothing!” […] But on the night of September 10-11, less than five hours after the murder, an email arrived in the inboxes of the President of the European Parliament, the 719 other MEPs, and their assistants. The subject: “Minute of silence in plenary session – Assassination of Charlie Kirk .” The sender: Charlie Weimers, Swedish MEP for the Sweden Democrats (SD), a party with fascist roots. In his message, the elected representative, who calls for a tribute to the young man, denounces political violence that is becoming “systemic .” […] The following day, the minute’s silence was not observed. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola did not consider the request procedurally admissible. While Charlie Weimers was able to speak, he was interrupted when he used the opportunity to impose his tribute. This was followed by outraged statements from the far right about the supposed hatred towards her, most of its representatives having never heard of Kirk the day before. SD MEP Charlie Weimers called the Parliament’s presidency’s refusal “hypocritical ,” drawing a bold parallel with the 2020 tribute paid in the hemicycle to George Floyd, an African-American victim of police violence.” In a perverse way, it’s reassuring to know that American zealotry is not so American after all, though it remains the shitting upon a hill that Europe’s far right, and presumably the rest of the world’s far right, is collecting at bottom and redistributing.Â
—P.T.
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November 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
Al-Anon Family Groups
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
Returning home, I passed a house where they were dancing, and seeing people coming and going, I wanted to see what it was. It was a musical. A dark orgy in a place that was a true cesspool of vice, shame of the most disgusting debauchery. The very sound of two or three instruments that formed the orchestra plunged the soul into sadness. A room stinking of the bad tobacco that was smoked there, of a stench [v] of garlic that came from the belches of Those who were dancing, and who were sitting with a bottle or a pot of beer on their right side, and a hideous whore on their left, presented to my eyes and my reflections a desolate image which showed me the miseries of life, and the degree of degradation to which brutality could lower pleasures. The assembly which animated this place was entirely composed of sailors, and other common people to whom it seemed a paradise which compensated them for all that they had suffered in long and painful navigations. Among the public women that I saw there I did not find a single one with whom it would have been possible to amuse myself for a single moment. A man of bad appearance, with the air of a tinker, and the tone of a peasant, came to ask me in bad Italian if I would dance for a penny. I thanked him. He showed me a Venetian woman who was sitting there, telling me that I could take her up to a room and drink with her.
–From Casanova’s Story of My Life (1798).
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Ray W. says
The Washington Post reports that just days before the El Salvadoran government permitted the Trump administration to send hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a “notorious” El Salvadoran prison, President Nayib Bukele requested the return of nine imprisoned MS-13 gang leaders. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the El Salvadoran president that some those nine gang leaders he wanted were “informants” that were, by definition, under the protection of the U.S. government.
After his disclosure, Secretary Rubio told President Bukele that Attorney General Pam Bondi would need to terminate the American agreements of protection reached with those informants, and he assured President Bukele that Attorney General Bondi would do what was necessary to hand over the protected informants to El Salvadoran officials.
Prior to this morning’s Post’s article, evidence of the Trump administration’s “willingness to renege on secret arrangements made with informants who had aided U.S. investigation” had not been reported.
Said Douglas Farah, a U.S. contractor who had worked with U.S. officials to “dismantle” MS-13:
“The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members. ,,, Who would ever trust the word of U.S. law enforcement or prosecutors again?”
According to the Post reporting, one of the three MS-13 gang leaders who had received U.S. protection in exchange for information, Cesar Lopez Larios, provided information to U.S. officials that the Bukele administration had cut deals with the gang. He was sent to El Salvador two days after the Rubio talks.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
In my some 25 years working as a defense attorney, I defended more than one client who became an informant. Sometimes the prosecutor approached me. Sometimes the client decided to cooperate.
Time after time, once the client had cooperated, law enforcement officers broke their promises.
Only one team of detectives kept every promise that any member made, and that was because the ranking law enforcement officer openly insisted that anyone working under his command would keep his word.
It got to the point where I began telling detectives prior to my client working with them that I was advising my client that I did not expect that the detectives would keep their word and that my client was cooperating at his own risk.
The worst betrayal I experienced involved a person providing information about something the law enforcement officers had never heard of.
I knew what my client was about to reveal. After he told detectives what he knew, they told me that if everything panned out as described, the information was significant and would be enough for them to advise that my client had cooperated to their satisfaction. A significant arrest of a person they had never heard off before my client’s cooperation soon came about, exactly as my client had told the detectives.
Trouble soon arose after the arrest when the prosecutor told me that the detectives had told him that my client’s cooperation had not been of value.
I deposed the lead detective prior to an in camera hearing. He told me under oath that my client’s cooperation was of little value. I subpoenaed every member of the task force and told the leader prior to the hearing that the judge was about to find out just how unreliable was the word of his team. He talked to the prosecutor, who then agreed to what we had agreed to just after the cooperation, which was that my client had cooperated to their satisfaction. No detective was put under oath before the court.
I remain puzzled to this day about why I had to do what I had to do to force the detectives to keep their word.