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Weather: A slight chance of showers before 11am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 2pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. High near 89. South wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Thursday Night: Showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 2am. Low around 72. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
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Today at a Glance:
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Commissioner John Cunningham is looking to stop City Manager Dale Martin’s contract from being renewed automatically. See: “John Cunningham Wants Flagler Beach City Manager Dale Martin on Probation Until Next Evaluation.” Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.
Beats and Eats: Live Concert and Food Trucks at the Stage in Town Center, 6 p.m. at The Stage at Town Center, 1500 Central Avenue, Palm Coast. Beats & Eats combines the food truck lineup residents know and love with live concert entertainment, building on the success of both Food Truck Tuesday and the Palm Coast Concert Series. The event will take place monthly from May through October. Live music, food trucks, vendors, yard games, and beer and wine.
Spotlight on Flagler Youth Talent Show, 6:30 p.m. at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center (Flagler Auditorium), 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students. Call the box office at (386) 437-7547 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., or book online here.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
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.
Notably: If you still doubt the wanton brutality and terrorism of Israeli colonists–euphemistically called “settlers”: there is nothing settled about them–you need only watch the repellant video below of one such colonist, masked of course as criminals and torturers prefer to be, beating almost to death a dog belonging to a Palestinian family in the West Bank. It isn’t enough that the Israeli military sics its dogs on unarmed worshippers inside a mosque. They protect colonists who terrorize Palestinians by burning their homes, uprooting their olive trees, torturing their dogs. Fortunately for that particular dog, a Palestinian equivalent to Caroline Johnson’s SMART recue took care of the victim.
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June 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
When a unit of the Israeli forces approached Rafea’s house shortly after midnight, Rahima Hasan Salmah, his fifty-two-year-old mother, who had become accustomed to such raids on her home, rushed to waken her wanted son and ushered him out of the house by the back door. Speaking in broken Arabic, the soldiers ordered Rahima and her kids to leave the house. In defiance, she blocked the entrance with her body, telling the soldiers that her son had fled earlier that evening. At this, the commanding officer pulled the trigger of his M 16 automatic machine gun, riddling Rahima with bullets in front of her seven children. She bled to death shortly afterwards. Hours after Rafea’s mother was gunned down, a little after 4:30 that morning, Israeli tanks began their withdrawal from the Al Amal neighbourhood. Hundreds of people congregated to discover the reason for the latest night-time raid, as was the case whenever an Israeli incursion took place. As the crowds gathered, an Apache helicopter followed as more than two hundred youngsters were massing in front of Al Katiba Mosque. The Apache hovered lower and lower over the heads of the youngsters, then fired a missile into the crowd. Pools of blood, incinerated flesh and body parts littered the mosque square like a slaughterhouse. Fifteen young men died, with more than 150.
–From Zaki Chehab’s Inside Hamas (2007).
Pogo says
Other dead speak
… as masked murderers parade their trophies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfTjAmzyTrY
EC: File
Dennis C Rathsam says
Day after day, week after week, the daily villain is TRUMP! Talk about an editor with blinders on. TDS is running wild here, at F/L. Three more yrs TRUMP will remain as president, thank God! The stock market is on fire, your 401ks are doing quite well. I see many new cars on the road, so somebody,s doing well. Builders are making more money now, than ever before, why…. cement & block are a thing of the past. Years ago, you’d have to be a crazy fool to buy a stick house in Fl! Not many were built, now that’s all you see. Put them up in a month, & let the buyer beware. The new comers, who don’t know Fl think thier getting a wonderfull home. Between the termites, the wood eating ants, ( which are hard to kill) they have eaten my dock in many places. Now as I replace the rot, Im using plastic imitation wood, & lets not forget about the wind from Hurricanes. P/C has been DEVISTATED before. Pray this year they will stay in the Gulf. Lets also hope we never have a fire, like we had yrs ago, these homes are doomed.
Dennis C Rathsam says
Day after day, week after week, the daily villain is TRUMP! Talk about an editor with blinders on. TDS is running wild here, at F/L. Three more yrs TRUMP will remain as president, thank God! The stock market is on fire, your 401ks are doing quite well. I see many new cars on the road, so somebody,s doing well. Builders are making more money now, than ever before, why…. cement & block are a thing of the past. Years ago, you’d have to be a crazy fool to buy a stick house in Fl! Not many were built, now that’s all you see. Put them up in a month, & let the buyer beware. The new comers, who don’t know Fl think thier getting a wonderfull home. Between the termites, the wood eating ants, ( which are hard to kill) they have eaten my dock in many places. Now as I replace the rot, Im using plastic imitation wood, & lets not forget about the wind from Hurricanes. P/C has been DEVISTATED before. Pray this year they will stay in the Gulf. Lets also hope we never have a fire, like we had yrs ago, these homes are doomed.
Laurel says
I’m sorry, Dennis, the man is robbing us blind and taking us down. No other President has personally profited the way Trump has. No other President has called half of Americans “vermin” or “Dumocrats.” No other President ever dreamed of such abuse!
By the way, there is no such thing as Trump Delusional Syndrome. It’s as fake as he is.
BobAnananon says
We should have stopped providing military support to Israel decades ago when they first refused to end their expansionist settlement policies.
Laurel says
Again, no kidding. If you want to see what he writes on “Truth Social,” which apparently, has very little truth, and social to only a small group, you can go trumpstruth.org. This organization has posted all his comments, verbatim, without all the extra ads and garbage.
The President of the United States of America, is supposed to represent all Americans. Trump does not do that, in fact, he purposely does just the opposite. The mentally ten year old, badly behaved boy, calls half of America “Dumocrats.” This is not the America I grew up with. It has had its warts, it has had its bad times, but we never had a President who talked like a foolish, selfish child.
You know who is good, it is whoever Trump knocks. Plain and simple. At his site, he compares Talarico with Alfred E Newman. Talarico is a Representative in Texas who is running for Senator. He is a devout Christian, who is true to his religion, not a phony who wears a cross and lies through the teeth like many do today. Trump calls Talarico “an insult to Jesus.” So, being a true, devoted Christian doesn’t sit well with a President who portrays himself as Jesus healing a man, and portrays himself as the Pope. A man who hawks his own bible.
With Trump, up is down and down is up. If you want to know who is real, look for someone Trump rails against.
His nasty gibberish reminds me of the time my friend and I were walking home from school, and found “The Imperial Wizard” paper laying on the ground. We picked it up and read it. It compared black people to apes. It was the worst, nastiest, piece of garbage we had ever seen. It was hard to believe that people actually bought that junk. That’s what “Truth Social” looks like to me today.
Its time to leave him behind; it doesn’t look good on you.
Skibum says
And now the maniacal moron in the WH is hell bent on the ongoing destruction of our nation’s vaunted and historic White House, giddily remaking it into some gaudy, faux glitzy golden atrocity as a memorial to himself. He has such poor taste that he thinks Americans will love the sight of a MMA fight ring that he is ordering built on the WH lawn. These asinine plans are what some have called the “trailerparkification” of the WH, and I agree.
Since his inauguration last year, he has done NOTHING to help Americans and is totally absorbed on self-enrichment, self-dealing, and self-promotion. But the one thing he has definitely accomplished has been the turning of the vast majority of Americans against him, against his corrupt maga administration officials and against his policies. Bravo! We can applaud that!
Ray W. says
The Jerusalem Post reports that this morning, at 12:35 am, Iran first warned and then fired on four vessels attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The four vessels turned back, per the story.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
This from a Dagens.com US story.
Canada was in the market for six early warning military jet aircraft. Boeing manufactures the E-7 Wedgetail, but the story puts it that Boeing has been struggling with “severe delays and ballooning costs.” Saab, a Swedish aircraft manufacturer that already has some economic ties to Canada’s aircraft sector, makes a comparable early warning jet aircraft that is already in use in several European militaries, the GlobalEye.
Canada just announced it is going with Saab; it will purchase six GlobalEyes. Saab agreed to increase its investment in Canadian-based research and development.
The reporter then switches the story to fighter jets. Canada has already agreed to purchase 88 Lockheed-Martin F-35s. Prime Minister Mark Carney recently asked a procurement team to consider “canceling the order” and consider purchasing Saab’s Gripen fighter jets.
The reporter writes that “American officials are losing patience with their northern neighbors.” The reporting then asserted that within the last week, Washington “completely suspended” long-standing defense talks between the two neighboring countries.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Ever since President Trump began speaking of Canada becoming a 51st state and of Canada’s Prime Minister being a 51st governor, then unilaterally imposing tariffs on Canadian goods, Prime Minister Carney has repeatedly stressed to his populace the importance of pivoting Canada’s economy away from the economy of the United States.
My position has been straightforward: If you treat an entire populace like shit, they tend to remember it.
Prior to Trump acting toward Canadians the way he repeatedly acted, Mark Carney’s Liberal Party was losing in the polls. Bad. So, too, was he. Bad. A election was coming. Both Carney and his Liberal Party suddenly won. Big.
No one doubts that Trump was the one who created for Canadian Liberals the winning political argument. So long as that political argument continues to offer value, Canadian politicians will use it.
Want to build a controversial second pipeline from Alberta’s tar sand fields to Canada’s Pacific coast in order to supply new export markets and pivot away from American oil markets? Suddenly, political opposition to the project fades away. Not all the way. But away.
Trump owns this one.
Yes, several FlaglerLive commenters posit that President Trump is playing 3D chess when others are playing checkers. And they might be right. But a person playing chess can repeatedly lose and a person playing checkers can repeatedly win. Just yesterday, Trump said during an Oval Office event that if Oman, an ally, doesn’t “behave”, re: shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and throughout the Gulf of Oman, he can easily blow up the country.
Laurel says
Lives mean nothing to him. Nobody’s home.
Ray W. says
I recently commented about an underutilized South Carolina Volvo factory. Geely, a large Chinese EV maker, owns Volvo. I asked whether Geely should consider assembling its EVs in South Carolina to get around Biden’s tariffs.
The Wall Street Journal just published a story about 40% of Stellantis’ European factory capacity sitting idle. Stellantis owns, among many other makes, FIAT and Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram.
Per the story, Stellantis invested more than $1 billion in a relatively new Chinese car company, Leapmotor, and it is about to enter into a joint venture with another Chinese car company, Dongfeng. Stellantis, the reporter writes, plans to build large numbers of Chinese cars in its European factories, but only those models that do not directly compete with established Stellantis models.
In theory, the company’s CEO says, where BMW or Volkswagen sells a car in a product category in which Stellantis does not compete, cheap Chinese cars assembled in Stellantis’ now-idle European factories can provide to European buyers the necessary competition.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
According to data collected by The Cool Down, in 2025, worldwide EV sales of all types surpassed 20 million units, with EVs capturing 25% of all new car and light truck sales. Compared to 2024, 2025 EV sales in South America were up some 75%. EV sales in Europe rose by more than 30%. EV sales in Southeast Asia more than doubled, year-over-year.
Per an Electric Cars Report study, worldwide EV driving in 2025 cut consumption of crude oil derivatives by 1.7 million barrels of product per day. Transport, according to the study, accounts for approximately half of the world’s demand for both crude oil and its many derivative products.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Of what value energy independence? Americans have been considering the question ever since the first OPEC crude oil embargo. I do not claim to have the answers. But numerous studies show that demand for fossils fuels is approaching a tipping point into steady decline in fossil fuel need.
Pogo says
High quality
… a couple of examples:
From uniform to unforgettable: The story of Navy Veteran Mayumi Kimura
https://news.va.gov/147056/story-navy-veteran-mayumi-kimura/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
A life of service continues at the Humble VA clinic
https://news.va.gov/147039/a-life-of-service-continues-at-the-humble-va-clinic/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Ray W. says
In his History of the English Speaking Peoples, when Winston Churchill describes the murder of the two nephews of King Richard, he writes of the English people being horrified by the news, in no small part because Uncle Richard had been entrusted with their safety.
Churchill describes the public passions of the time:
“The popular demand for the release of the princes was followed by a report of their death. When, how and by whose hand the deed had been done was not known. But as the news spread like wildfire a kind of fury seized upon many people. Although accustomed to the brutalities of the long civil wars, the English people of those days still retained the faculty of horror; and once it was excited they did not soon forget. A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgment baffled by its perversion. But in the fifteenth century the murder of the two young princes by the very man who had undertaken to protect them was regarded as an atrocious crime, never to be forgotten or forgiven.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Can a modern public lose the persistency of thought necessary to sustain fury in the face of horror? Can memory be blurred by the multiplicity of daily news. Can judgment be baffled by perversions?
Ray W. says
A May 27, 2026 Windward publication contains a number of bullet points:
– Pre-conflict, the “baseline” daily number of Strait of Hormuz transits, both east and west, was 120.
– Over the 89 days since conflict began, the average number of transits, east and west, is 6.9 vessels per day, down 94% from the pre-conflict baseline. Of those 6.9 vessel transits per day, 46.4% of Strait transiting vessels carried the Iranian flag.
– Since start of conflict, more than 40 vessel “incidents”, including kinetic attacks, have been recorded.
– On May 24, Iran opened a new low-capacity crude oil export “sequencing yard” located to the east of the Strait of Hormuz on the Iranian shore of the Gulf of Oman.
– Since outbreak of conflict, Iranian policy has shifted from “continuous closure” to “selective permission.”
– On May 12, the number of Iranian IRGC small fast-attack boats identified as operating in the region peaked at 664. On May 17, 392 IRGC small, fast-attack boats were identified as active across the region, which means that Iranian naval activity is no longer confined to the Strait of Hormuz or to near the Iranian shoreline.
In the opinion of the author, the corridor is “functioning as an Iran-territorial-waters-safe-zone rather than a through-route.”
There is an OUTLOOK section to the publication:
“Day 89 is the analytical milestone, not just a date. Three months into Operation Epic Fury, the Hormuz operating environment looks structurally different from how it looked on February 28, and the difference is not closure relaxing, but closure restructuring into permission-based control, eastward export bypass and imbedded strait-body IRGC presence.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
If I interpret accurately the points raised by the author, i.e., that since the outbreak of hostilities Iran has increased, not decreased its level of control over the channels through which so much of the world’s critical cargo once traveled, can it most accurately be argued that Iran now holds many or even most of the best cards?
nbr says
Did anyone look at the video, from Palestine regarding the human on animal attack
Ray W. says
During a recent White House event aimed at addressing maternal health care, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., described the declining U.S. birth rate as an “existential crisis.”
Dr. Mehmet Oz also spoke at the event. He described a vision of a coming wave of “Trump babies.” In his mind, new administration policies aimed at lowering the cost of fertility treatment options would reverse the declining U.S. birth rate.
Dr. Oz added his opinion that 30% of American women were “underbabied.” Underbabied, to him, means “you either don’t have any children or you have less children than you really want to have.”
He added, “We’re way below what we need just to replace the people that we have in America. … You have to get moms healthy enough to do the most creative thing the universe knows, which is making babies.”
Make of this what you will.
Pogo says
The clowns ARE running the circus. Oh, well.
Related
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=maternal+mortality+in+us
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=cost+to+give+birth+us+2026
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=average+cost+to+raise+a+child+to+18+in+us
Why ARE these innumerate chuckle heads, who lightly recommend dangers and burdens for others that they would never choose for themselves, in positions of honor and trust?
Me?
Mistakes, like everything else, happen — intentionally, and not; Kennedy and Oz, being prime examples…
Sherry says
Meanwhile, trump is doing his damndest to “erase” the history of the REAL “Americans”:
The Trump administration has curtailed public messaging and restricted government communications regarding American Indians through several highly publicized actions targeting vocabulary, digital content, and historical displays:
Forbidden and Restricted Vocabulary: As part of a broader push to dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives across federal agencies, the Trump administration flagged a list of hundreds of specific terms for government employees to restrict, avoid, or submit for special review. According to reports from platforms like The Guardian and Brookings.
These restricted terms include:”Indigenous community””Native American””Tribal”
Removal of Digital Reports and Historical PagesThe administration systematically scrubbed multiple public-facing federal web pages and resources dedicated to Native American affairs:
The “Not One More” Report Removal: In early 2025, the Department of Justice completely removed the Not One More report. This document was a legally mandated study produced by the Not Invisible Act Commission detailing the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Lawmakers were told the removal was done to comply with an executive order focusing strictly on the recognition of two biological sexes.Erasure of Code Talker Pages:
The Department of Defense removed specialized historical pages honoring Native American Code Talkers. These pages documented the crucial roles Navajo and Choctaw servicemen played in communicating encoded messages during the First and Second World Wars.Demands to Alter National Battlefield Signage
In February 2026, directives emerged from the administration to remove or significantly alter existing interpretive signage at the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument. Tribal officials noted that the targeted displays described the history of broken treaties and the cultural and linguistic erasure caused by the historical federal Indian boarding school system.Broader Public Proclamations
The communication shifts also extended to high-profile executive actions. President Trump signed a prominent proclamation reinstating October 13th strictly as “Columbus Day,” explicitly omitting any mention of “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”—an action critics characterized as an effort to scrub Indigenous history from national recognition.
The Administration’s Response: The Department of the Interior has publicly disputed accusations of historical erasure. Officials state that adjustments to signage or communications are part of routine, standard departmental reviews aimed at ensuring “historical accuracy” and providing “broader context” rather than suppressing information.
Laurel says
I mentioned before, that I believe there are three main groups trying to take control of our government and country (there are probably more):
White Supremacists groups
Christian Nationalists
Financial ultra wealthy markets and power brokers
The interesting thing about Trump is, he is catering to all three at the same time. Sherry has given many examples of how the current administration is trying to wipe out history that may be distasteful to a few. Trump has sparked every bit of bigotry he can to continue the hatred and division.
Evangelicals, and weak Christians (not all are weak) preach that Trump is the imperfect man sent to Earth to show human kind the righteous path. Clearly, they are only half right with the imperfect part. Trump jumped all over that and pretends to be religious, shamelessly.
Trump, and his family, and those he wants to reward with loyalty, are playing a chaotic market. One that simply makes no sense, unless you pay attention to how Trump manipulates it.
Three different groups, all profiting, either financially or mentally, from one man. How does he get away with it? The promotion of fear. So, I’ll give him three dimensional checkers.
Sherry says
@ Laurel. . . a truly excellent analysis!
I’ll give trump this: while using “Project 2025” as a guidebook, trump has been able to use his power to unleash his utter corrupt, criminal contempt of our Constitution in many different directions at once. Roy Cohen taught him well to be the “mastermind” needed to destroy our democratic republic.
IMO. . . trump is absolutely psychologically “DRIVEN” by the hate created by his own insecurities from childhood. That “hate” has given him the craven strength of a “madman”, and we are all now suffering the terrible consequences!
nbr says
I would concur, I am surprised that I was the only to make a comment about the dog beatings in Palestine by settlers
Laurel says
…those he wants to reward WITH loyalty…
Laurel says
…for, for, for loyalty…
Sorry, I lost my glasses a few days back and am struggling with text.
BillC says
Hail Emperor Trumpus!