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Weather: Partly sunny, with a high near 87. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 75.
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Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. The council will get an overview of property taxes, and discuss changes to the land development code. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Community Traffic Safety Team led by Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance meets at 9 a.m. in the third-floor Commissioner Conference Room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You may also join virtually by computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting. Meeting ID: 276 236 998 121 Passcode: CyEKoW [Download Teams | Join on the web]
The Flagler County School Board meets at 3 p.m. in workshop to go over the items on its upcoming school board meeting two weeks hence. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See board documents, including agendas and background materials, here. Watch the meeting or past meetings here.
The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items. Note: meeting start times vary from month to month. Check here to verify the time. A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online 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]
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.
Tuesday Book Talk at Flagler Beach Public Library, 4:45 to 5:45 p.m., at the library, 315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach. Free. Tuesday Book Talk is an hour-long gathering inviting readers to discuss a variety of books. Rather than choosing a single book club title each month, the Book Talk is designed to let readers share information about books they find interesting. It’s a great way to be introduced to different subjects, titles and authors. For more information check out the Guidelines on the Library page at cityofflaglerbeach.com or call the Library at (386) 517-2030. Please come prepared with information about the book you’d like to introduce, starting with title, author and year of publication. You might highlight a few select quotes or read an excerpt for the group and describe why the subject/characters/ideas/style were so interesting to you. Share the things that made you want to talk about the book in the first place and the essence of what made it memorable to you.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Group meets at 4 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.
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Readings: Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinian neighborhoods continues without a peep from the West. From B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization: “The Silwan area, located south of the Old City of Jerusalem and annexed to the city’s municipal boundaries, is home to some 20,000 Palestinian residents. Its unique location next to the Old City, near al-Aqsa Mosque for Palestinians and the Temple Mount for Jews, puts it at the forefront of the Israeli regime’s campaign of dispossession and displacement in Jerusalem, as part of a broader plan to cleanse the area of its Palestinian residents and Judaize the neighborhoods surrounding the Old City. This plan is actualized through several racist mechanisms, including discriminatory legislation such as the Absentee Property Law and various municipal by-laws; the deliberate absence of detailed planning schemes for construction in Palestinian neighborhoods; and designation of land as national parks or other national projects in order to justify the dispossession. In Silwan, joint efforts by settler organizations and state authorities to Judaize the area are focused on three projects currently underway: excavation of the so-called Herodian Street, demolition of homes in al-Bustan neighborhood, and eviction of residents from Baten al-Hawa. These efforts place the residents of Silwan under very real threat of eviction from their homes and dispossession of their land. Over the past two years, evictions in the neighborhoods of Baten al-Hawa and Wadi Hilwa, where the City of David tourist site is located, together with home demolitions in al-Bustan, have left hundreds of residents homeless. In Baten al-Hawa, from October 2015 to April 2026, 33 families were evicted – a total of 77 people, 37 of them children. Fifteen of them were evicted in March 2026. Now, another 53 families are facing expulsion – a total of 237 people, 130 of them children. Many Palestinian families challenged eviction orders in court, but their petitions were dismissed in a series of rulings issued in late 2025, ordering 157 neighborhood residents to vacate their homes. In several cases, the evicted families were even ordered to pay the settlers tens of thousands of shekels in compensation. As of February 2026, 28 families from Baten al‑Hawa face immediate risk of eviction after the court denied them leave to appeal, ruling legal proceedings in their cases had been exhausted. Several additional court cases concerning dozens of neighborhood families are still pending before the Magistrates’ Court or awaiting decisions on appeals to the Supreme Court.” Read more.
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June 2026
Phoenix Crossings Charity Golf Tournament
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
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
The Israeli regime does not have to declare itself an apartheid regime to be defined as such, nor is it relevant that representatives of the state broadly proclaim it a democracy. What defines apartheid is not statements but practice. While South Africa declared itself an apartheid regime in 1948, it is unreasonable to expect other states to follow suit given the historical repercussions. The response of most countries to South Africa’s apartheid is likelier to deter countries from admitting to implementing a similar regime. It is also clear that what was possible in 1948 is no longer possible today, both legally and in terms of public opinion. As painful as it may be to look reality in the eye, it is more painful to live under a boot. The harsh reality described here may deteriorate further if new practices are introduced – with or without accompanying legislation. Nevertheless, people created this regime and people can make it worse – or work to replace it. That hope is the driving force behind this position paper. How can people fight injustice if it is unnamed? Apartheid is the organizing principle, yet recognizing this does not mean giving up. On the contrary: it is a call for change.
–Froma B’Tselem position paper, “This Is Apartheid,” January 2021.
Dennis C Rathsam says
Why is it when ever the Democrats, loose a decesion in the Supreme Court, the tears run like rain. Now we even stupe so low is to print a cartoon from a Canadan. Did you think he was gonna tell the truth, after TRUMPS tariffs on them? Who cares what Frenchy wants, who cares what Frenchy says. Without protection from the USA, Canada couldn’t fight its was out of a paper bag. Big Big news flash here!!!!! I payed $3,50 yesterday for gas at BJ,s. Prices are coming down, maybe not as fast as you would like but its a start. Its gonna be a great summer, even for Democrats!
Mark Webb says
Dennis, why it every time a republican loses a race they cry out loud that the race was rigged?
Cry me a river!
Gas is back up and NASDAQ is falling fast.
Enjoy.
FlaPharmTech says
Your butchering of English is fenomenell.
YankeeExPat says
Back to $3.99 this morning 06/10/2026
Trump has no viable handle on the war he created himself, and as usual the little guys ( You and I,…. his constituents ) are taking it in the Ass !
Trumps issue is that he doesnt believe he works for us,… he cant get it through his head that we dont work for him.
Sherry says
small minded, ignorant, racist tripe as usual!
The dude says
Ummm… not republicans… their orange dear leader…
Laurel says
Alex Pretti and Renee Good. US citizens killed by US government agents. Where is the justice?
Dennis C Rathsam says
These 2 would still be alive today if the just listened! Do you pull away when a law officer tells you to stop? When you go Pickett, & carry signs, Do you carry a gun? What we have is dumb people doing stupit things.
Laurel says
Dennis, they are, by our Constitution, allowed to protest. That’s one of the things about our country that makes us great. I know you prefer a police state, with no justice system, but we are not, yet, an authoritarian regime.
Alex Pretti was licensed to carry a gun. He did not pull it out. Ask your party’s favored NRA about that.
Renee Good was shot in the head while trying to turn around and leave. We all saw it.
But let’s say, for the moment, that they “should have stayed home” where is the normal procedure of an investigation? Where is the law that states you must stay home? Where is the accountability for the actual shooters?
Your argument aligns more with countries that have no justice. I prefer a country of laws, not a lawless country.
Pogo says
More than a little irony in the air this morning: juxtapose the cartoon with, “Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinian neighborhoods continues without a peep from the West…”
Not a peep? How about the funding of the cited source itself — in its own words:
As stated
https://www.btselem.org/about_btselem/donors
Opinions are deserving of being heard — does evidence also have a voice — or is this court like the one in the cartoon?
A plea:
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=international+funding+of+hamas+hezbollah+communication
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=hezbollah+revival+persian+empire
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BillC says
In 2024, B’Tselem reported a total income of approx. $3.05 MILLION USD).
—B’Tselem website
In calendar year 2025, the United States provided Israel with approximately $7.5 to $8 BILLION in total military aid, combining the standing annual grant of $3.7–$3.8 BILLION under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with roughly $4 BILLION in emergency expedited transfers and Foreign Military Sales (FMS).
“MONEY TALKS BULLSHIT WALKS”
Pogo says
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
― Carl Sandburg
I reiterate:
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=international+funding+of+hamas+hezbollah+communication
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=hezbollah+revival+persian+empire
BillC says
“What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.”
— Dan Quayle
Clearly Pogo has lost his ability to concentrate or remember what he said. His original objection was to the statement “Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinian neighborhoods continues without a peep from the West…”. The WEST, remember? Then he directs to the B’Tsalem website to prove his point and expose the nefarious organizations responsible for funding B’TSalem such as Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Christian Aid Ireland, Church of Scotland, Church of Sweden, Church of Christ, Foundation for Middle East Peace, United Church of Canada.
The total income for B’Tsalem in 2025 was 3 MILLION, compared 8 BILLION from the US .
Completely forgetting (duplicitously?) about “not a peep from the WEST”, Pogo redirects attention to a website about how much IRAN is funding Hamas and Hezbollah.
Killing innocent civilians is deplorable and despicable, not just when Iran does it, but when Israel does it as well.
Pogo says
Who is in your wallet?
Prediction: The SpaceX IPO will be the greatest fleecing of retail investors we’ve ever witnessed
Key Points
Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to raise $75 billion, at a valuation of at least $1.8 trillion, and is expected to go public on June 12.
History hasn’t been particularly kind to mega-IPOs.
Structural changes to major index inclusion, coupled with an unusual lockup period, are poised to leave retail investors holding the bag.
The rest
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/prediction-the-spacex-ipo-will-be-the-greatest-fleecing-of-retail-investors-we-ve-ever-witnessed/ar-AA24Z3NH?ocid=nl_article_link
Secure retirement?
Relax, you don’t need no stinking security — big daddy trump got you
https://www.google.com/search?q=index+safe+funds+exposed+to+new+rules
Ray W. says
Thank you, Pogo.
Rules can change. Some good. Some bad.
Fans once complained when MLB changed the rules to include the designated hitter in the American League. It took some 50 years to bring the change to the National League. But people talked about the changes. Sports writers debated the issues. How many will discuss these rule changes you cite?
Pogo says
Thanks for the dance lesson.
Practice, practice
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/prediction-the-spacex-ipo-will-be-the-greatest-fleecing-of-retail-investors-we-ve-ever-witnessed/ar-AA24Z3NH?ocid=nl_article_link
And more practice
https://www.google.com/search?q=index+safe+funds+exposed+to+new+rules
Laurel says
And for what? To go back to the moon (since 1969)? For moon dust? What’s the profit? Mars rocks?
I’m with Neil Degrassi Tyson: wouldn’t it be better to fix our own planet?
According to some, we need war, data centers and moon dust.
Pogo says
Hello L
Time and fortune will have the final say.
Laurel says
Time, for sure. Hope against fortune (which does have an incredible success rate).
Ray W. says
NewsNation reports that former Border Patrol head, Gregory K. Bovino, posted to X that his one continuing goal is to get himself in a position where he can deport the 106 million “illegals who are here.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Who knows where Bovino got the 106 million “illegals” figure? I know of a number of competing research estimates of the number of unauthorized immigrants living among us. One research group estimate mentioned by Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) researchers places the number of unauthorized immigrants living among us in 2022 as between 16.2 million and 29.1 million, but the OHSS researchers question the methodology of the research and place little value in the figures.
“Unauthorized” immigrants, to the OHSS researchers, means the combination of the number of undocumented immigrants with the number of once-legal immigrants who, for whatever reason, overstayed their visas or other forms of permission.
In May of 2024, OHSS researchers published the Department of Homeland Security’s annual estimate of the number of “unauthorized” immigrants residing in the country as of January 1, 2022 (OHSS has yet to release more current estimates): 11,990k.
Here are other OHSS unauthorized immigrant population estimates:
2000 – 10,460k.
2005 – 10,490k.
2006 – 11,310k.
2007 – 11,780k.
2008 – 11,600k.
2009 – 10,750k.
2010 – 10,790k.
2011 – 11,590k.
2012 – 11,510k.
2013 – 11,430k.
2014 – 11,210k.
2015 – 11,460k.
2016 – 11,960k.
2017 – 11,440k.
2018 – 11,570k.
2019 – 11,110k.
2020 – 10,510.
2021 – no data released due to unreliability of pandemic collection efforts.
So, here’s the rub. OHSS uses its own methodology to estimate the number of undocumented immigrants. For some reason, OHSS did not publish in May 2025 its 2023 undocumented immigrants estimate. Neither has OHSS published its 2024 estimate by the end of May 2026.
Other researchers use their own algorithms to establish their own numbers. OHSS researchers place little value in the claims of one of those groups of researchers. But the OHSS researchers do not dispute other research figures. The OHSS researchers only acknowledge that different research methodologies will produce different population estimates.
Nonetheless, Bovino is posting a number that defies credulity. He asserts that 106 million “illegals” must be deported.
What could that figure signify?
I have long asserted that the modus operandi of the professional lying class that sits atop one of our two political parties is to lie in hopes that the more gullibly stupid among us will launder the lie. Is Bovino simply making up a number to inflame hatred and discontent? Is his target populace the most gullibly stupid among us?
My modus operandi is to name a source, quote from that source or paraphrase information set out in that source, and then ask FlaglerLive readers to do with the information however they will. So, do with Bovino’s allegation however you will. Me? He is talking to hear his head roar!
Ray W. says
I erred and I apologize. In 2000, the OHSS figure listed above was 8,460k unauthorized immigrants, not 10,460k. Perhaps it was flying fingers. Perhaps it was a nearly 70-year-old brain. Maybe it was just a clerical error. But I knew the figure was 8,760k before I typed what I typed.
Laurel says
Can we deport the Bovinos instead? This would be a nicer place.
Ray W. says
A news outlet, Flying, reports that Helios Horizon constructed an electric aircraft that holds the altitude record for such aircraft at 24,000 feet, using a liquid-state lithium-ion battery. Now equipped with a world-first solid-state aviation-designed battery, Helios Horizon intends to take the aircraft to an altitude of 40,000 feet.
The news outlet does not describe the solid-state battery’s chemistry or lifespan; only that the new solid-state battery is comparatively significantly more energy dense in storage capacity (410 watt-hours per kilogram versus 260 watt-hours per kilogram). The new battery charges to 80% of storage capacity in 15 minutes.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Advances in battery chemistries and configurations just keep coming. Ford’s CEO asserts that EVs are having their Model T moment. Are aircraft having their Model T moment, too? Innovation abounds. Ingenuity amazes.
Yes, gasoline-powered engines continue to incrementally improve in efficiency, squeezing slightly more power out of each liter of gasoline, but the incremental efficiency increases are tiny. Battery chemistry improvements, comparatively, come in leaps and bounds. Breaking an electric aircraft world record altitude of 24,000 feet by 16,000 more feet in altitude, if accomplished, would constitute an increase by a leap and a bound.
Ray W. says
Since June 3rd, the opening day of an international economic forum hosted in St. Petersburg, Russia, per a story by RBC Ukraine, Ukrainian drones have been striking targets in and around the city. First, strikes targeted a naval corvette in dry dock and infrastructure at an oil export complex. Next came strikes on three oil storage tanks in a larger oil storage complex. Reported most recently, among other strikes, was an explosion at a chemical reagent site owned by a company that produces naval guns, among other products.
St. Petersburg is nearly 1,000 kilometers from the closest Ukrainian border.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I have not forgotten about range limits placed by the Biden administration on Ukrainian use of American-supplied rockets and missiles. And, our president declined multiple requests for longer-range weapons. The Ukrainians could only fire American-supplied missiles on Russian targets located inside Ukraine’s sovereign borders, out of administration concern the war might escalate.
So, the Ukrainians set out to design and now make their own drones, missiles and rockets. Now, the Ukrainians are helping our Gulf state allies defend themselves against Iranian drones and rockets.
If Ukrainian forces can learn in just four years how to design and manufacture drones that can avoid Russian anti-air defenses and then strike with accuracy Russian targets located nearly 1,000 kilometers away, what does that portend?
Numerous recent articles report that since the start of 2026, Ukrainian forces have been liberating more Ukrainian soil than the Russians have been capturing. Nearly four years of incremental Russian momentum on the battlefield has suddenly reversed. The number of Russian dead per month is rising. One story holds that the major highway on which food and fuel gets to Crimea has been closed to traffic. Fuel trains are repeatedly destroyed. Fuel rationing in cities on the peninsula has begun.
Ray W. says
Dagens.com US reports that this morning, Russia’s energy ministry issued this:
“Recently, fuel and energy enterprises have faced an uptick in enemy aerial attacks, leading to temporary difficulties with fuel supplies in several southern regions.”
The reporter also wrote of the Kremlin-appointed leader of Crimea who, beginning on May 29th, limited purchases of gasoline and other fuels to 20 liters per day. Yesterday, Sebastopol’s governor tightened the restriction in that city to 20 liters of gasoline or fuel per week.
The reporter added that Ukrainian drone operators are said to have begun “hunting” fuel trucks driving on the highway connecting Crimea to Russia, the R-280 Novorossiya highway.
Make of this what you will.
I checked. From what I found, at least one Ukrainian battery maker has designed and recently begun to manufacture both solid-state and semi-solid state drone batteries. This past January, Ukrainian drone range is claimed to have suddenly increased by 60%, allowing for up to 200 kilometers of flight on a charge. This technological advance has, for the first time, brought traffic on the R-280 Novorossiya highway within range of Ukrainian drone operators.
I find it astonishing that Russia’s energy ministry would admit to the Russian people that Ukrainian forces are curtailing Russian refinery production. A government long built on deceptions and dishonesties just doesn’t admit such a thing. For four years, official Russian statements assert all drones and missiles are broken up in flight; they never hit their targets. Only “falling debris” from aerial objects starts fires on the ground and injures Russians.
Ray W. says
According to an Oil Price US reporter, the ideal grid condition is one that matches electricity supply as close as possible to ever-fluctuating electricity demand. This one-to-one ratio is hard to maintain when electricity supply comes from variable renewable wind and solar power plants. Energy fluctuations can cause imbalances and, at worst, irreparable equipment damage..
Enter battery energy storage systems (BESS). Prior to the recent worldwide mass implementation of BESS, whenever wind or solar or both generated excess electricity, the one-to-one ideal grid balance could be lost, meaning that any excess renewable generated electricity had to be “wasted”, i.e., “curtailed.”
Per the reporter, as an example, in 2025, German grid operators had to “waste” 3.1% of the electricity generated by solar plants, due to a lack of BESS capacity to absorb the “waste.” Overall, combining solar power “waste” with wind power “waste”, some 9.6 terra-watt hours of German renewable electricity generation went to “waste.” Implementation of more BESS capacity eliminates the possibility of “waste” caused by grid imbalances.
The reporter writes that China’s CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, anticipates that its BESS share of total battery sales will grow from the current 25% to an overall 50% share of total CATL battery sales by 2030. Today, CATL has two European battery manufacturing factories; it is building a third in Spain.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
At the late-night onset of Winter Storm Uri in 2021 on the ERCOT grid, solar farms were not generating any electricity. The state’ solar farms could not have unbalanced that delicate one-to-one grid balance between supply and demand. The grid’s one-to-one balance between electricity supply and demand quickly destabilized when, first, natural gas power plants froze, and, second, natural gas pipelines feeding gas to the remaining operating natural gas power plants froze. Supply plummeted as demand skyrocketed. The entire grid trembled on the precipice. With seconds to spare, grid operators shut down large portions of the grid, blacking out much of the state. Make no mistake. Natural gas was the direct cause of the largest blackout in national history.
Almost immediately, professional liars began blaming renewables for the collapse. Almost immediately, the more gullible who wander among us began to launder the lies.
ERCOT’s after-action study revealed the cause for the many ensuing deaths. It wasn’t renewables. Windmills did not freeze, as the professional liars had claimed, because windmill blades have warming elements built into them. In reality, it was Texas grid regulators submitting to corporate greed. Texas grid regulators had failed to require natural gas pipeline owners and natural gas power plant owners to winterize their operations, even though the regulators knew that the ERCOT grid had failed a few years before in the same way during a different winter storm.
Here’s the physics. As Winter Storm Uri developed, Texas grid operators watched as the delicate one-to-one grid balance destabilized. One by one, some of the many natural gas power plants froze. Response rates by nuclear power plants and coal-fired power plants are comparatively slow because it takes time to power up or power down their steam turbines. Natural gas turbines respond more rapidly to throttle inputs, up or down. But BESS installations are the most rapid of all in responding to grid imbalances. A BESS facility can switch from recharging to discharging in milliseconds.
In other words, a BESS facility can most rapidly control that delicate one-to-one grid balance. Again, it is simple physics. With enough BESS capacity, grid imbalances can be averted, regardless of what the professional liars say.
But current BESS facilities have their own limitations. Right now, only iron-air, or “rust”, batteries, a technology still in its infancy, can over up to 100 hours slowly release their stored electricity. The current standard of liquid-state lithium-ion storage batteries, at full demand, last no more than four hours.
Endless corruption says
The sad reality is that the US government is ran by pedophile cult. They are treasonous scum who starve children at home to bomb children abroad. They continue to block release of child rape ring files. They have enriched themselves by billions of dollars by selling pardons, government contracts, and manipulating the stock market. It’s an epically sad display of leadership. End GOP terror!
Ray W. says
The Mirror US reports that the New World screwworm has been detected in a dog in eastern New Mexico, bringing the number of cases detected in both Texas and New Mexico over the past week or so to five, including four cows.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I suppose this reveals Brooke Rollins, our federal agriculture commissioner, as just another professional liar. She blames the entry of the New World screwworm on former President Biden’s border policies, claiming that an undocumented immigration, or a pet of an undocumented immigrant, must have brought the pest into the country. Of course screwworms live for only a few weeks and they do not travel very far on their own before dying, so the idea that screwworms entered the country before the end of 2024 and then inexplicably became dormant until late spring 2026 is absurd, but since when has absurdity ever stopped a professional liar or the gullibly stupid lie launderers who follow them. After all, Gregory Bovino just posted to X the absurdity that his goal is to deport all 106 million “illegals” who live among us. Some people just say things, anything, in the knowledge that there will always be others willing to shamelessly spread the lies.
Ray W. says
Here is an example of a professional liar. Our Energy Secretary, reports CNBC, while speaking at a conference, told attendees when asked that ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is rising “very meaningfully.”
The CNBC reporter checked. The International Monetary Fund publishes “PortWatch”, a summary on ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. In the week ending this past Sunday, PortWatch tracked the travel of five ships per day, on average, through the Strait of Hormuz.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Every FlaglerLive reader ought to know by now that no one can ever accept at face value anything said by a member of the professional lying class that sits atop one of our two political parties. Yes, if travel rises from five ships per day to six ships per day, perhaps that 20% rise can be stretched to a “very meaningful” rise in traffic. But traffic through the Strait just before onset of war was between 120 to 140 ships per day. Five or six ships per day will always be a drop in the bucket.
Sherry says
Another chapter in “Humans Inhumanity”! Meanwhile at a taxpayer funded “Concentration Camp” near you:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas created unsafe conditions that contributed to detainee deaths and suffering even as millions of wasted tax dollars enriched contractors, according to a federal report released Tuesday.
The Government Accountability Office report documents serious problems at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso where three detainees have died in little more than six months. Evidence in one of those deaths, of a 55-year-old Cuban migrant who died in January after being held down by guards, was “missing or destroyed,” the report found.
ICE rushed to open the camp in August before construction was complete and failed to conduct required oversight to ensure detainees were held in sanitary conditions and receiving adequate medical care, according to the report.
Laurel says
Sadly, most people just don’t care, until it hits home. Then, it becomes an outrage.