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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 106. Calm wind becoming east 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 76. South wind 3 to 8 mph.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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Today at a Glance:
Pride in Bunnell at 2K Ranch, noon to 4 p.m. Join us for a fabulous celebration of love and equality at the Bunnell Pride Festival! Come together as a community to support, honor, and celebrate LGBTQIA+ individuals and our allies. Enjoy a day filled with pride, joy, music, art, connection, and love. Let’s stand together in solidarity and show the world that love is love! See: “Bunnell Pride Returns for 3rd Year Running Sunday to 2K Ranch, Misinformation and ‘Proud Boys’ Aside.”
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email PalmCoastFarmersMarket386@gmail.com
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at the Bridges United Methodist Fellowship at 205 North Pine Street, Bunnell (through the gate, in room 8), and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
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Notably: At the beginning of every World Cup match they play the two competing nations’ national anthems. Nothing unusual about that. We’re used to it in every sport in the United States, professional or not. But there is a difference. At World Cup games, they just play a recorded, instrumental anthem–and let the players and the immense crowds pick up the singing. I was watching the prelude to the US-Australia match, and after wincing (as I never used to, but these are grim times) at the first couple of bars of the Stars and Stripes, the familiar emotion quickly returned, the eyes welled up, ridiculously, but more so because the entire Seattle Stadium was singing. It seemed to me so much more authentic, more rousing and heartwarming, than when single performers monopolize the stage and turn the anthem into a performance, instead of what it is meant to be: a shared moment to express our shared purpose, our unity, our communal love of country, no matter what else may divide us. When we sing together, without a performer, without a performance, we become the anthem, and the anthem is us. Or US, if you prefer. But please. Hold the Reagan-vintage chauvinistic U-S-A U-S-A chants. The anthem says it all.
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July 2026
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
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
Story Time on the Farm at the Ag Museum
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[Sam] Rayburn. Rayburn who hated the railroads, whose freight charges fleeced the farmer, and the banks, whose interest charges fleeced the farmer, and the utility companies, which refused to extend their power lines into the countryside, and thus condemned the farmer to darkness. Rayburn who hated the “trusts” and the “interests”—Rayburn who hated the rich and all their devices. Rayburn who hated the Republican Party, which he regarded as one of those devices—hated it for currency policies that, he said, “make the rich richer and the poor poorer”; hated it for the tariff (“the robber tariff, the most indefensible system that the world has ever known,” he called it; because the Republican Party “fooled … the farmer into” supporting the tariff, he said, the rich “fatten their already swollen purses with more ill-gotten gains wrung from the horny hands of the toiling masses”); and hated it for Reconstruction, too: the son of a Confederate cavalryman who “never stopped hating the Yankees,” Rayburn, a friend once said, “will not in his long lifetime forget Appomattox”; for years after he came to Congress, the walls of his office bore many pictures, but all were of one man—Robert E. Lee; in 1928, when his district was turning to the Republican Hoover over Al Smith, and he was advised to turn with it or risk losing his own congressional seat, he growled: “As long as I honor the memory of the Confederate dead, and revere the gallant devotion of my Confederate father to the Southland, I will never vote for electors of a party which sent the carpetbagger and the scalawag to the prostrate South with saber and sword.” Rayburn who hated the railroads, and the banks, and the Republicans because he never forgot who he was, or where he came from.
–From Robert Caro’s The Path to Power (1982).
Dennis C Rathsam says
That’s 1 mans opinion!
Ed P says
How difficult was it for Hillary Clinton to urge the international community to back Trumps 20-point Gaza plan?
She warns that rejecting it risks diplomatic paralysis because there isn’t another credible alternative.
Unconventional and polarizing, but realistic.
Pogo says
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Ray W. says
Windward reports that 24 commercial ships of all types entered the Strait of Hormuz from the Gulf of Oman; 13 were tankers. 16 commercial vessels exited the Strait from the Persian Gulf, with six being tankers.
A “swarm” of IRGC fast-attack boats, numbered about 100, was also observed operating in the Strait, and more boats were seen returning to an IRGC naval base near Bandaranaike Abbas. The IRGC activity was deemed consistent with both monitoring and controlling shipping traffic.
New tankers were observed taking on crude oil at Iran’s Kharg Island.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Traffic through the Strait remains active, yet constrained. Forty ships in a day cannot be considered consistent with pre-war normality.
Unless enough demand destruction has occurred, the world’s supply of crude oil held in reserve has to continue to drop.
Time will tell.
Ray W. says
In this five-minute monitoring segment, Texas-based solar and wind electricity generating plants are supplying 76.6% of ERCOT’s customer demand for electricity.
Sherry says
This cartoon is certainly NOT just one person’s opinion:
Racial Disparities: In polling on racial equality specifically, approximately half of Americans believe race impacts whether the justice system provides fair outcomes, with about 63% of Black adults expressing unfavorable views of the court, compared to roughly half of White, Hispanic, and Asian adults Pew Research Center Favorable views of Supreme Court remain near historic low.
National Trust: Only 35% to 44% of Americans currently express confidence in the overall judicial system and the Supreme Court to act in the best interests of the public Gallup Poll Americans Pass Judgment on Their Courts Annenberg Public Policy Center Trust in U.S. Supreme Court Continues to Sink.
Ray W. says
The Telegraph reports that after Ukrainian drones struck two more Russian oil refineries yesterday, among other Russian military structures, for the first time Russian President Putin admitted to the Russian people in a speech that his government was facing “problems” in its war on the Ukraine.
Make of this what you will.