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Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. It is voting on a new city manager. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Groundbreaking for SMA Healthcare: a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Justice Lane off Old Haw Creek Road in Bunnell for SMA Healthcare’s new facility designed to enhance access to vital behavioral health services in the community.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, 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 Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 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]
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Notably: Elsa Morante was an Italian novelist best known for La Storia, from 1974, translated in 1977 as History: A Novel, about a young Italian widow raped at the beginning of World War II in Rome, and about the next half dozen years. The opening pages include this passage, describing the italy of the late 1930s (or if you change a name or two, our contemporary United States): “In Italy (headquarters of one of their most sordid branches) they join their servants and some ill-assorted objectors to the mutilated peace in a desperate fight to save their own interests. And they are not long in finding a champion and suitable instrument in Benito Mussolini, a mediocre opportunist, a “compound of all the flotsam” of the worst Italy. After having tried to launch his career under the banner of socialism, he has found it more advantageous to shift to the opposite side of the Powerful established figures (property owners, the King, and later also the Pope). With a plat-form consisting only of a guaranteed anti-Communism, truculent and vulgar, he has founded his fasci, a collection of vassals and assassins of the bourgeois revolution. And in such company, he defends his employers’ in-terests with the terrorist violence of poor action squads of bewildered mercenaries. The King of Italy (a man with no title to distinction except the inherited title of king) gladly turns over the government of the country to Mussolini.” It evokes the cartoon below.
–P.T.
This isn’t America.
When armed ICE agents throw innocent people to the ground, it’s state-sponsored cruelty, not law enforcement.
Silence is complicity. Stand up. Speak out. Stop this.#HumanRights #ICE #AmericaForAll pic.twitter.com/tLM9oJ3kdG
— P a u l ◉ (@SkylineReport) November 7, 2025
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December 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
The Bronx Wanderers at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy
Santa in Bunnell
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
The jails in Ipswich, Salem, and Boston, among which the accused witches were dispersed, were places not just of privation but of horror…. As the most dangerous inmates, the witches were kept in the dungeons. These were perpetually dark, bitterly cold, and so damp that water ran down the walls. They reeked of unwashed human bodies and excrement. They enclosed as much agony as anywhere human beings have lived…. Accused witches were worse off than the other unfortunates. Their limbs were weighed down and their movements restricted by manacles chained to the walls, so that their specters could less easily escape to wreak havoc. They were treated by wardens and visitors with deliberate cruelty, fair game for sadism since they were enemies of God and mankind. Body searches for “witches’ teats” afforded ample opportunities for rough treatment.
–From Frances Hill’s A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (1995).
Laurel says
Virginia Giuffre did an interview on 60 Minutes Australia, and stated she found a room at Epstein’s house, that had several monitors, that were manned. There were cameras all over the house, including her bathroom. Epstein had tons of videos of very wealthy and powerful people, and he used them to get “favors.” When the FBI came in, I’m certain they confiscated all those videos. That’s where the real stories are, not so much on “files.” I imagine a lot of people are very frightened right now, and would do anything to prevent *exposure.*
Sherry says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazZ0EfkZds
Does any “thinking” person really believe that the Epstein files have not been completely scrubbed of anything incriminating to trump? Really?
Sherry says
Here is an AI Summary about that “scrubbing operation by 1,000 FBI agents. Now that his name has been completely redacted from each and every page where it appeared, trump is “suddenly” saying the files should be released!
In mid-2025, it was reported that FBI agents were instructed to “flag” and then redacted mentions of Donald Trump and other high-profile individuals in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The names were reportedly blacked out to protect privacy under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), as the individuals were private citizens when the initial federal investigation into Epstein began in 2006.
Details of the Review
Massive Effort: Around 1,000 FBI personnel were reportedly directed to work round-the-clock shifts to review approximately 100,000 pages of documents for public disclosure.
Instructions to Flag: According to a letter from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the personnel were specifically instructed to “flag” any records in which President Trump was mentioned.
Privacy Justification: The FBI FOIA team applied the redactions, citing privacy protections.
Jim says
Trump is mentioned over 2,000 times in the Epstein emails released so far.
Currently, the House of Representatives, made up of the most courageous Republican members ever, are supposed to release the DOJ Epstein files today. Even Mike Johnson, perhaps the most religious and moral person ever to walk the face of the earth, plans to vote for this.
Even DJ Trump has announced he wants to Republicans to vote for it’s release.
But, isn’t it quite interesting that Trump could easily direct Pam Bondi to immediately release those documents on his own authority as president? There’s no requirement for a vote to release those documents. The vote is being held because the Trump administration has refused to release the documents!
Only in the dystopian MAGAland world does any of this make sense.
If we ever get to see those documents, it’ll be interesting to see what they contain about Trump. And, if it’s bad, is there any hope that MAGA will see it? I don’t think so. It’ll just be more of the same excuses and misdirection.
Laurel says
I think maga is pissed off too! They haven’t forgotten. They’re getting it now, that they were lied to and used. Maybe they will soon realize how much news has been kept from them, by being so loyal to their favored shows.
It appears to me that the people who are doing the protecting of the pedophiles are people who are very afraid to release the information, as Ms. Guiffre stated the men who abused her were “billionaires,” “royalty,” “professors,” “politicians,” and heads of states. The abusers are people of extreme power.
Personally, I think Epstein was murdered. Why would a man of such wealth and power kill himself? More than likely, he would have gotten off. That’s the whole point here. The system does have much different rules for those of great wealth and power, than the black me in prisons, that some here criticized they *deserved it.*
Yet, the fall has begun:
“Prince Andrew has been embroiled in a scandal primarily due to his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of sexual misconduct, including claims made by Virginia Giuffre that he assaulted her when she was a minor. In 2025, he was stripped of his royal titles and privileges by King Charles III amid ongoing scrutiny and controversy surrounding his past actions and relationships.”
-Search Assist, E! Online, Wikipedia
“Larry Summers is stepping back from public life and resigning from several positions following the release of emails revealing his long-term correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender. He expressed deep shame over his actions and aims to rebuild trust with those close to him.”
– Search Assist, Time, wjla.com
Politicians know what’s going on, and they are afraid. The current President of the United States knew damn good and well what Epstein was up to, and didn’t care. That, alone, makes him complicit. Any politicians, of either side, making an attempt to stop the truth from coming out is complicit as well.
Megan Kelly stupidly stated that there’s a big difference is sexually abusing children by their age. Far right news sources rather talk about he demise of the penny. Anyone, or any source trying to cover up this information is complicit.
Sounds pretty deep state and corrupt, doesn’t it? Do I believe we’ll find out the truth? No. I would bet there has been much scrubbing and redacting done. As it is now, the Attorney General of the United States, Bondi, has refused to answer Congressional questions. We’ll see how long abused children matter.
laurel says
…men in prison…
Often the wrong ones, looks like.
Allyn Susan Feinsetin says
Did Giuffre ever intimate that she was involved in encounters of a sexual nature with Donald Trump?
Laurel says
Please explain how that would absolve him from knowingly hanging out with a sexual predator and sex trafficker of children? Trump said of Epstein “He likes ’em on the young side.”
You are comfortable with that?
Sherry says
@ allyn. . . are you so very naive that you do not understand that “ANY” person who accuses trump of “ANYTHING” has their lives threatened daily, at a minimum?! Much less something like participating in, or even knowing about Epstein’s horrific crimes? You understand that, right allyn? Right?
Would you risk your very life and come forward and accuse such powerful men if you were a victim? The victims, including Giuffre, that have spoken to the press fear being murdered. Of course, you would likely not see that on Fox.
Watch the series “Scandal” if you want to know the fictional “dark side” of the kind of things what could possibly be going on in Washington.
Here is an “AI” summary on this subject:
Virginia Giuffre: One of the most prominent and outspoken accusers, Giuffre repeatedly stated that she feared for her life and believed she was in danger for speaking out. Her posthumously published memoir, Nobody’s Girl, reveals her fear she might “die a sex slave” at the hands of Epstein and his circle. Before her tragic suicide in April 2025, she had made a public statement on social media that she was not suicidal and that if anything happened to her, people should investigate. Her death, which followed an alleged hit-and-run incident a month earlier, has fueled conspiracy theories and deepened fears among other survivors.
Other Survivors: At a press conference on Capitol Hill in September 2025, victims described living in fear of retribution from the powerful men involved, which left some of them terrified to even say their names publicly. Haley Robson, another survivor, has spoken about the continuous fear and trauma, emphasizing the need for legal protection and support for all victims.
Laurel says
Because she had admitted suicidal feelings in the past, she would be an easy mark. No one will investigate.
It’s a done deal.
Those who wish to divide us, in this country, have been so successful, that mere disagreement can trigger death threats against people and their families. We are currently in a bad place, in this country, and the current administration is doing absolutely nothing to make it any better. Just more threats.
Sherry says
@ Laurel. . . couldn’t agree more!
Laurel says
We also know that Trump will start investigations of every Democrat and their brothers, so Bondi *can’t* release all the files. These investigations will go on for a long time.
Now he’s freaking out about hanging Democrats or some such crap. He’s nuts, and the damage he is doing may not be reversible.