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Today at a Glance:
The county and the nation are getting set for the 250th. Many government offices are closed starting today, and normal activities cancelled. Check before you go anywhere.
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Notably: On the approach of the 250th it’s worth noting that last week’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ratifying our president’s bigotry against Black and Brown nations never, in the Alito majority opinion, once quote the president on the subject, because it couldn’t. Had it done so, it would have demolished its own reasoning–that Trump’s racism really aren’t what people make them out to be. That the assumption that Trump wants Syrians and Haitians kicked out because of his racial animus is not plausible. So Justice Kagan did it for the court in her dissent. “It is more than plausible,” she wrote. “Even putting the clear-error standard aside, the Haiti plaintiffs have carried their burden. The evidence they have offered includes statements by the President so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print. (Indeed, one measure of the President’s way of speaking about Haitians is to compare it with the majority’s, which is unfailingly respectful. [In an illustrative footnote, Kagan wrote: “For example: “[P]overty and deprivation are no reflection on character, and there is no justification for denigrating the character of Haitians who suffer from and bear no responsibility for their country’s ills.”] So here are some of those statements. Haitians are “eating the dogs . . . . They’re eating the cats. They’re eating—they’re eating the pets of the people that live [in Springfield, Ohio].” [I am excluding Kagan’s technical references to the original documentation, such as 2 App. 802; see id., at 644, and so on.] And: Haitians are also eating “other things too that they’re not supposed to be.” Id., at 698–699. And: Haitians in the United States “probably have AIDS.” Id., at 698. And: Haiti is a “shithole country,” which is “filthy, dirty, [and] disgusting.” And: Haitian immigration is “like a death wish for our country.” And: Haitians, along with some others, are “poisoning the blood” of our country. And: “Why is it we only take people from shithole countries” like “Haiti [and] Somalia”? “Why cannot we have some people from Norway [and] Sweden?” The majority briefly replies that those remarks are not “overtly racial,” but it is hard to know what that means. Haitians are Black. (Norwegians and Swedes not so much.) The references—of filth, disease, and primitiveness—are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes. It is hard to imagine the statements being made today of any White community. No very “sensitive inquiry,” of the kind Arlington Heights compels, is needed to see them for what they are; judges, as we often say, are “not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free.” The statements fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the President’s resolve to remove Haitians from this country.”
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July 2026
Conversations in Democracy
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 Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
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The chant erupts in a college auditorium in Washington, as admirers of a conservative internet personality shout down a black protester. It echoes around the gym of a central Iowa high school, as white students taunt the Hispanic fans and players of a rival team. It is hollered by a lone motorcyclist, as he tears out of a Kansas gas station after an argument with a Hispanic man and his Muslim friend.
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In countless collisions of color and creed, Donald J. Trump’s name evokes an easily understood message of racial hostility. Defying modern conventions of political civility and language, Mr. Trump has breached the boundaries that have long constrained Americans’ public discussion of race. Mr. Trump has attacked Mexicans as criminals. He has called for a ban on Muslim immigrants. He has wondered aloud why the United States is not “letting people in from Europe.” His rallies vibrate with grievances that might otherwise be expressed in private: about “political correctness,” about the ranch house down the street overcrowded with day laborers, and about who is really to blame for the death of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. In a country where the wealthiest and most influential citizens are still mostly white, Mr. Trump is voicing the bewilderment and anger of whites who do not feel at all powerful or privileged. But in doing so, Mr. Trump has also opened the door to assertions of white identity and resentment in a way not seen so broadly in American culture in over half a century, according to those who track patterns of racial tension and antagonism in American life.
–From “For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance,” by Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times, July 13, 2016.
Laurel says
He spends our money like it’s his personal, unlimited account.
Dennis C Rathsam says
WOW!!!!! TDS is alive & well on Flagler Live. TRUMP lives in your heads, its got you crazy, you hate him so much, you,ll turn America into a socialist country. Little by little, the Democratic party keeps slipping in people who hate America. Have you not listened? Have you not seen? Name 1 country where socialism has worked!
Skibum says
YES, we hate crooks who steal from the American public, only to enrich themselves! We hate sex abusers who prey on others and protect other wealthy and powerful pedophiles because they either are buddies or have the goods on the one despicable sex pervert in the WH that would end his presidency in a day if they squealed on him! We hate having a convicted felon sit at the top of our nation’s government after having been convicted by his peers of 34 felony counts! We hate a con man who lies more in one singe day, even about things easily proven as falsehoods, than most people lie about in months! We hate a fraudster who has taken advantage of average, every day people for his entire adult life, thinking it is some kind of sport because he has no morality, no ethics, and no compassion for other people. We hate a man who has publicly humiliated and made fun of the disabled, of veterans and true American heroes, who has repeatedly called women “piggy”, “low IQ”, “stupid”, etc. We hate having an unhinged, brainless idiot in the WH who puts completely unqualified, conspiracy theory believers and know nothings in charge of our military in the Pentagon, in charge of our nation’s justice department, in charge of America’s health systems, in charge of our consumer protection agencies, in charge of our educational oversight agency, in charge of many other federal agencies… only to instruct them to eviscerate and destroy our federal government and/or to cover up and hide criminal behavior, unethical acts, straight up grift and unheard of extreme theft of taxpayer dollars from our treasury!
And you know what else we hate? Complete morons and mush brains who vomit excuse after excuse and come to the defense of someone who deserves only to be thrown out of office and locked up to his many crimes against the American people. If you are unable or unwilling to acknowledge or even see the terrible things this despicable man has done and will continue to do while he is in the WH, then YOU need to be committed to an insane asylum for you are not fit to make decisions for yourself or even get out of bed without someone there to tell you how to do it! You are to be pitied and then dismissed as a complicit fool who is encouraging the ruination or our country and our democracy!
YankeeExPat says
Good Afternoon Dennis C. R.
My question for you today is quite simple.
Do you accept payment from Social Security each month ?
If so,……I have to break it to you but you are a “Socialist ” and you probably are a card carrying Marxist who has an S.S.A. card in your wallet or your sock drawer to prove your status in the proletariat !
Dasvidaniya .. …. my comrade ! …… and have a Happy 4th of July!
BillC says
TRUMP lives in our WALLETS not our heads! And hold on to those $Trump meme coins- they went from $73 in Jan ’25 to $1.71 today- a loss of 97.7% for the suckers who bought them. Meanwhile, Trump made off with $1.4 billion total crypto earnings reported for the year. Maybe now he has enough for gas money to get away from justice in his newly refurbished 747 bribe from Qatar.
Ed P says
BillC,
Just for context on any specific meme coin.
Investors know they are not traditional crypto. Anyone with crypto knowledge understands meme coins are more like trading Pokémon or baseball cards and not for investing. It’s gambling.
So now would be your time to get one…at $1.71 Get 2.
The refurbished air force 1 is the property of the United States Air Force.
Blanket hatred toward everything Trump stands for, is both a bromide and trite. Boring too.
BillC says
Thanks for confirming that the $Trump meme coin was a piece of garbage that took advantage of naive people.
Laurel says
Democrats, don’t get too confident. The group of oligarchs (and more) who stood behind Trump at his inauguration will make the Republican campaigns flush with money, thanks to Citizens United, and the Supreme Court.
Investment groups are going after our housing, small businesses and now, veterinary clinics, and making affordability even harder, and ultra big business friendly Trump is gutting the laws that protect us.
It’s going to be harder than you think. The grifters and plunderers are not going to let go of their golden egg laying goose so easily. More carrots will be thrown at you, and reality won’t set in until after the midterm.
Ed P says
And the solution?
Maybe more Democratic Socialists?
Who controls the Democratic Party?
Exiting the Democratic Party to register as NPA doesn’t provide a moderate with much of a voting alternative because the Dems are once more racing to “out left “ each other.
Remember, a big tent has no foundation, the walls are flimsy and temporary, is relatively unreliable in stormy weather and is synonymous with a circus.
While everyone is welcome and worthy of inclusion, there’s room for a Communist but not a Republican?
Hard to see a winning path forward that would be good for America.
BillC says
Nice trick Ed P, equivocating communist for democratic socialist, as if they are the same thing.
Democratic socialism operates within a multi-party democracy, emphasizing civil liberties, free elections, and political pluralism. In contrast, communism has historically been implemented through centralized, single-party states that limit political opposition to manage economic, social and religious transformation, often resulting in authoritarian governance.
Of the two systems Trump’s brand (MAGA) is closer to communism than democratic socialism is.
Ed P says
Hello BillC,
Stopping drinking their kool aide, open your eyes.
They want to remake ( destroy) capitalism, the bedrock of our nation.
The socialist/ communist found a new less threatening name decades ago- progressives. Sounds nice doesn’t it?
Brand dilution, similar to Planned Parenthood.
It’s taken one step further today. Democratic Socialist of America.
Now they too have come out of the closet and are slowing revealing their radial beliefs. Abolishing prisons, defunding police, free all incarcerated people. Government run grocery stores and free everything. Who is going to pay, oh the wealthy?
Edify yourself and read the SDA published platform.
Then, I am willing to engage in a debate.
BillC says
Of the two systems Trump’s brand (MAGA) is closer to communism than democratic socialism is.
Ed P says
Hello BillC,
I challenge you or anyone to compare the DSA platform to anything Republicans or MAGA and support your gullibly stupid response.
If you can’t see that it’s a road map to the destruction of our democracy, there’s nothing more I can say to convince you otherwise.
BillC says
Such a typical Authoritarian MAGA response…
Ed P says
Hello BillC,
Is that how you perceive the truth?
Laurel says
What a real, American hero looks like:
James says
As has been said… “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
While I certainly cannot say I love Trump. “Hate” is too strong a word to describe any opinion that I personally might have for him as a person.
I don’t hate Trump… I don’t know Trump… I never wanted to know of Trump… and the more I learn of the man, the less I want to know of him. But for his being president, we all seem to be forced to make an assessment of this man from what he does, the decisions and choices he has made.
So I don’t “hate” Trump, I strongly dislike and disagree with what he does and how he does it.
Just a clarification… to those who think they know what others feel or care about as strongly as they do.