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Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Friday Night: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
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Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. Today: all about the Food-A-Thon.. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
Sealing and Expungement Clinic for Flagler and Volusia Residents, hosted by Community Legal Services, Friday, Nov. 7, 3 to 7 p.m., Johnson H. Dickerson Community Center, 308 Dr. M.L.K. Jr. Blvd. Daytona Beach. Is an arrest record keeping you from a better job? If so, sign up for our FREE clinic to meet with an attorney who will determine if you are eligible to have your charge sealed or expunged. The attorney will help you fill out the application for the FDLE to review. If your criminal charge is sealed or expunged, you can deny or withhold knowledge of a prior arrest from most job applications. Pre-registration is highly recommended. Walk-ins are welcome. Register online or by calling us at (352) 509-9865. Clinic is open to both residents of Flagler and Volusia counties. For questions or additional information, please contact the CLS Pro Bono Unit at (352) 509-9865.
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, 10 a.m. Join a Ranger the First Friday of every month for a garden walk. Learn about the history of Washington Oaks while exploring the formal gardens. The walk is approximately one hour. No registration required. Walk included with park entry fee. Participants meet in the Garden parking lot. The event is free with paid admission fee to the state park: $5 per vehicle. (Limit 2-8 people per vehicle) $4 per single-occupant vehicle. Call (386) 446-6783 for more information or by email: [email protected].
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: Alexis de Tocqueville devoted two chapters to “Causes Mitigating Tyranny in the United States” in his endlessly quoted and never read Democracy in America. Tocqueville was concerned with the tyranny of the majority, as the founders had been. He saw states, counties and cities–local government–as ideally suited to check the federal government’s tyrannous tendencies, though his analysis was a bit faulty: he thought those local governments would be like brakes on mob tendencies. He had not experienced moms for liberty meetings. He also saw lawyers and judges as powerful forces against tyranny. Again, his theory shone brighter than practice, now that a federal judiciary (and in Florida, a state and circuit judiciary) mirror the executive’s worst tendency to the point of sycophancy. Letting it all rip: ICE goons. The military in our streets. Bombing boats. silencing media and law firms. This week’s cover of Le Nouvel Observateur, one of France’s weeklies, rips on Tocqueville and cuts to the chase, as one doubts Newsweek, Time or any other American magazine, save The Nation or Mother Jones, would. American Midnight is back.
—P.T.
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November 2025
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Tree-Lighting Ceremony in Central Park
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
For the full calendar, go here.
New York was the scene of an intensified hunt for dissidents, especially in education. Columbia University’s war enthusiast president, Nicholas Murray Butler, engineered the firing of two pacifist faculty members. Meanwhile, the state passed a series of laws affecting schoolteachers: they could now lose their jobs for “treasonable or seditious statements,” they had to be American citizens, and all schools had to give a course in patriotism and citizenship. New York City’s Board of Education went further, requiring all teachers to sign loyalty oaths, and holding hearings at which students testified about what their teachers said in class. Across the country, educators lost their jobs. E. A. Schimmel, a professor of modern languages at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, antagonized a local vigilante group, the Knights of Liberty, which tarred and feathered him.
–From Adam Hochschild’s American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (2022).
Dennis C Rathsam says
As the SCHUMER SHUTDOWN continues…It shows how much the democrats will do to keep the power. They are starving kids & retirees that have nothing, the working poor! SORRY, but the SNAP program needs an overhaul. I’m not paying for billions of Jackass programs around the world! I’m not paying for illegals healthcare…Step up the ICE raids, & show these fools the door! I’d put money on it, that people are getting BENIFITS from different states, & screwing America!
Pogo says
@Let’s hear it for principled not voting
https://www.google.ncom/search?q=Let's+hear+it+for+principled+not+voting
… less evil is less evil.
https://www.google.com/search?q=less
Ray W. says
On both Wednesday and Thursday, to support his claim that food prices are down since he took office, Trump announced that Walmart’s 2025 promotion involving a Thanksgiving basket of food items, at $40 per basket, is roughly 25% cheaper than it was in 2024, when it cost $55. Trump specifically mentioned each day former President Biden’s name.
CNN Politics fact-checked the claim.
In 2024, the Thanksgiving basket of goods contained 21 items. This year’s basket of goods has 15 items. Counting items with multiple units of certain items, last year’s basket had 29 items and this year’s basked has 22 items. And more generic items are included in this year’s basket of goods.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Promotions at any grocery store can be loss leaders to bring extra foot traffic into the store. Maybe not always, but commonly so. Comparing promotions across years doesn’t prove much. Walmart’s promotion last year had 21 different goods, with 29 units of food. This year? 15 different goods, with 22 units of food.
And food prices are up since President Trump took office, so any claim that food prices on the whole are down is a lie.
If one has to lie to prove a point, can it be argued that the point was always false?
Laurel says
It can prove the liar is a liar. What’s interesting, is how the receiver of the lie either ignores it, or processes it as truth.
Skibum says
Jim says
A judge tells the government that they have to pay SNAP. Trump says they’ll pay half in about a month. Says on Truth Social he’ll gladly pay if the courts rule that. Then the court does rule that and now Trump and JD Vance say the court can’t tell them what to do.
Clearly all this makes sense in MAGALAND. However for the rest of the world it’s just another example of Trump’s failure to respect the law. It also shows how little empathy he has for less fortunate people in this country. (Of course the Republican position is that everyone on SNAP should be working as they are all lazy and/or migrants).
Oh well, I look forward to the midterms. The more of this Americans see (and feel), November 2026 is going to look like November 2025!,
Skibum says
I certainly don’t disagree with your assessment, Jim, but we should not lose sight of the fact that at the end of the day there are real people getting hurt by all of the madness emanating out of the convicted felon’s WH. I look forward to the day the pedo protecting orange menace is removed from Washington D.C., hopefully in a casket after choking on his fast food lunch. I too look forward to next year’s midterm elections, but in the meantime that is a hell of a long wait for people who are struggling every day just to get by.
Ed P says
The question is does congress control the purse strings, ie spending, or do judges?
If the shutdown doesn’t allow for full snap payments, how can a federal judge order otherwise.
The Supreme Court just put a pause on the order.
Some knives cut both ways.
Solution: end the shutdown
Sherry says
What happened to trump saying he’d be honored to pay SNAP benefits if the court agreed that he should?
LIAR! This from Politico:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block full SNAP payments
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s emergency request for a stay of a lower court’s order to pay full food stamp benefits during the government shutdown.
Ed P says
Why has the shutdown outcry been so muffled?
Where’s the compassion for the most vulnerable being leveraged and starved?
Why aren’t protesters demanding an end to the shutdown?
Connect the dots.
Media and protesters lean left. The spin feels more like lies.
Do they believe silently the Dems caused the shutdown?
Do they know the straw man ACA argument and the shutdown wasn’t necessary?
Or
Are was the left so thirsty for any political win that they endorse the strategy of inflicting pain upon America is better than not winning something, anything?
Can we find 5 moderate Democrats to stand up for the people and end the shutdown?
Anyone listening gets the issue, Congress needs to negotiate the solution.
The silence could be the impossibility of framing the shutdown any thing other than dysfunctional. All parties. There are not going to be any winners and the monetary damages caused will far exceed, multiple times over, the cost of the ACA subsidies.
So unnecessary and damaging. Besides all the personal suffering and disruptions, the American economy once more takes a serious hit and we will be hearing about our reduced GDP and lost productivity. It will be staggering and no one is sounding the alarm.
Pogo says
@Editing by gaslight
… inserting a character into a URL to disable it — vanity run amuck.
Why there really is no ethical reason not to vote
https://theconversation.com/why-there-really-is-no-ethical-reason-not-to-vote-193612
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
— Plato
Sherry says
To Maga cult members who spout off the Fox BS that the Democrats are to blame for the continued shut down. . . Schumer offered a huge compromise in order to open the government and the Maga Republicans immediately smacked it down! This from Politico:
Schumer proposed a “clean” one-year extension to the tax credits that expire on Dec. 31 — meaning they would not include new restrictions on eligibility that many Republicans have sought. He also proposed creating a bipartisan committee to negotiate a longer-term solution for the subsidies and other health care reforms, to begin its work after the government reopens.
Senate Republicans have warned repeatedly that the government has to be reopened before Democrats get any vote on the ACA subsidies. But Democrats have balked so far at those terms as they pressure President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to cut a deal now to address the expected spike in Obamacare premiums.
“This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability and begins a process of negotiating reforms to the ACA tax credits for the future,” Schumer said. “Now the ball is in the Republicans’ court. We need Republicans to just say, ‘Yes.”
Key Senate Republicans immediately ruled it out, however, with Majority Leader John Thune calling it a “non-starter.”