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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 57. Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. North wind around 6 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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- 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. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
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]
County Commissioner Leann Pennington Town Hall, 6 to 8 p., at Haw Creek Community Center, 9257 Co Rd 304, Bunnell.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
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.
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.
Free Tax Preparation Services in Flagler County: The AARP Foundation’s Tax Aide provides free tax preparation services at six locations in Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Flagler County through April 15, but you must make an appointment first and fill out paperwork. To do both, go here.
Notably: One of these days soon, preferably not by way of a mushroom cloud or Cormac McCarthy’s Road, maga, which daily reminds us why it should not be capitalized so much as asterisked, disclaimed, denounced, will “disappear through the back door of history into the darkness of crackpot confusion and cure-all charlatanry.” Thank you, Hannah Arendt, for the promise in those words, grimly though you did not intend it when you wrote the line in The Origins of Totalitarianism, when you applied it to maga’s antisemitic precursors in emergingly fascist Germany, which suggests we may have worse ahead of us yet before we have better, if we make it that far. Frightening too how intimately, explicitly similar are the techniques of maga–its appeals to violence, to hatred, to extermination–to those of the antisemites who led to Hitler and the Holocaust. In his futuristic novel, What We Can Know, set in the postapocalyptic year 2119, the United States has fragmented into a no-go zone of warlords and banditry–into McCarthy’s vision. The prediction is equally believable.
Now this: Because we need a break.
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April 2026
Conversations in Democracy
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
“The Sound of Music,” at Athens Theatre
May 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
“The Sound of Music,” at Athens Theatre
‘Line’ and ‘All In the Timing’ At City Rep Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
The supranationalism of the antisemites approached the question of international organization from exactly the oppo site point of view. Their aim was a dominating superstructure which would destroy all home-grown national structures alike. They could indulge in hypernationalistic talk even as they prepared to destroy the body politic of their own nation, because tribal nationalism, with its immoderate lust for conquest, was one of the principal powers by which to force open the narrow and modest limits of the nation-state and its sovereignty. The more effective the chauvinistic propaganda, the easier it was to persuade public opinion of the necessity for a supranational structure which would rule from above and without national distinctions by a universal monopoly of power and the instruments of violence. […] By the turn of the century, the effects of the swindles in the seventies had run their course and an era of prosperity and general well-being, especially in Germany, put an end to the premature agitations of the eighties. Nobody could have predicted that this end was only a temporary respite, that all unsolved political questions, together with all unappeased political hatreds, were to redouble in force and violence after the first World War. The antisemitic parties in Germany, after initial successes, fell back into insignificance; their leaders, after a brief stirring of public opinion, disappeared through the back door of history into the darkness of crackpot confusion and cure-all charlatanry.
–From Hannah Arendt’s The Origin of Totalitarianism (1951).
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