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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 2pm and 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 100. Southwest wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 74. South wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
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Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, 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]
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The meeting of the seven-member board is open to the public.
Hammock Community Association Meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Hammock Community Center, 79 Malacompra Road. Everyone is invited. Doors open at 6 p.m. Meetings usually include a featured speaker. Check the month’s speaker at TheHammock.org. See videos from prior meetings at the HCA’s YouTube Channel. Sign up for the Newsletter. Prior newsletters are available here. Membership is $16. Join or renew here.
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.
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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From the “Wasting Your Breath” Department: Just to compare who gets thrown out of the United States and who doesn’t: There’s the illegal arrest of Salah Sarsour, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and the illegal imprisonment and repeated attempts to deport Columbia University students Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi, all of them green card holders, among others, all of them for merely protesting, without violence, against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. You never heard of any actions against pro-Israeli students who supported Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for a genocidal war (“You must remember what Amalek has done to you,” the Israeli prime minister said after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, alluding to the bible call to “kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings”) or Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant claiming “we are fighting human animals” or Israeli Finance Minister calling for “total destruction” of the Palestinian people or Israeli Knesset deputy Speaker Nassim Vaturi writing on X that Israel should be “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth” (isn’t that the language Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had used against Israel?) and saying “we must get in there and kil, kill, kill,” and so on: examples of Israeli officials inciting to genocide and pro-Israelis on American campuses or in the American workplace echoing the bloodlust are plenty. Examples of a single silencing, a single imprisonment, a single attempted deportation for those views–which were being carried out in fact, with American weapons, in Gaza and the West Bank–are nonexistent.
Now this: South Hebron Hills, January 2026: Increased Israeli effort to complete ethnic cleansing of Area C (B’Tselem Video)
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August 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Randy Fine Press Conference/Campaign Stop at Beverly Beach Town Hall
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Nar-Anon Family Group
For the full calendar, go here.
October 7 was a well-coordinated and murderous terrorist attack, akin to the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, an event that no one has ever described as a pogrom. Israel has become what Bialik had hoped for, an independent state with its own army, police, laws, and government, and therefore an entity that by definition cannot be subjected to a pogrom, which is a mob attack, condoned or supported by the state authorities, against a minority lacking any attributes of a state. To be sure, pogroms have occurred within the territories controlled by Israel, but when they take place, they were and are being carried out, with increasing frequency and ferocity, by settlers in the West Bank. These settlers target Palestinian communities, with IDF troops either idly standing by or actively taking part, before those troops eventually and reluctantly put an end to the violence, rarely arresting, let alone bringing charges against, the Jewish pogromists. […] This violence has included a rising toll of child victims. According to a July 2024 report by UNICEF (UN Children’s Fund), on average, one Palestinian child was killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, every two days since October 2023, with an additional 440 children wounded by gunfire during that period. Between October 2023 and the end of 2024, altogether 986 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank, including 210 minors. The online +972 Magazine reported in December 2024 that as a result of settler attacks, the residents of at least fifty-seven Palestinian communities in the West Bank had been forced to evacuate since October 7, with fifty of them being entirely wiped off the map. By October 2025 the newspaper Haaretz estimated that up to eighty rural Palestinian communities had been destroyed. According to the Israeli NGO the Daily Page, in September 2025 alone, 2,215 settler attacks on Palestinian communities were recorded, of which 114 culminated is deaths, injuries, and/or material damage. The Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem documented 40,000 inhabitants of refugee camps in the northern West Bank displaced from their homes in the first three months of 2025.
–From Omer Bartov’s Israel: What Went Wrong (2026).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Enough is enough, as an American, Patriot. I’ve had Iran up to my eyeballs! No more talk…Now its time to unleash the might on these lying ingrates. TRUMP did everything possible to make a deal with the hard headed Irainians! They played the United States dirty once to many times! We are not their lollypop. Now is the time to show the world the might of the American military. Iran’s leaders love to play games, Now is the time to take away their dice.
The dude says
Dennis is full of piss, vinegar and orange TACOs today… he’s here to chew bubble gum and kick some Iranian butt!! And he’s all out of bubble gum.
Go get em tiger!!!
Jim says
Speaking of “lying ingrates”, have you seen where Jeanine Pirro, United States attorney for the District of Columbia dropped all charges against those American citizens who have been accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool? This after Donald Trump stated flatly that vandals had cut a “200 foot, 300 foot and 400 foot” gash in the pool liner. However, it turns out that the government has determined the problems with the liner and algae is a direct result of the failure of the contractor [Trump picked with no-bid contract] and not through any vandalism. Now, I’d call someone who lied like that a lying ingrate (would you agree???)!
Anyway, just out of curiosity, what do you think the US military should do to Iran? According to Trump, we obliterated them militarily within hours of striking them in February. I think that if the US military had a good plan to completely destroy their military (which we’ve already done, right?), Trump would authorize it.
There are reports about an email seeking ways to beat Iran stem from a message sent by a senior intelligence officer within U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to military analysts asking for “new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran. I find it sad that six months into this little, minor disagreement with Iran, we’re not soliciting ideas for what else we can do. Sounds like we went into this thing with a great plan and it worked marvelously…
Anyway, Dennis, just be satisfied that Trump has kept his promise to keep us out of war and that he’d cut gas prices to $2.00 after he was elected. Also, remember there is no thing such as an “affordability” problem in the USA (per Trump that’s a made up Democrat (or is it Dumocrat?) word. On the plus side, he’s demolished the East Wing of the White House for his ballroom which won’t cost taxpayers a penny (right?), improved the Reflecting Pool like no one has ever seen before (right?), made the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy center the go to place in DC (right?) and has made more money in his second term than he ever made in the private sector (no grift there – right??), and pardoned both white collar and blue collar criminals like no one has seen before (even when he doesn’t know the person nor what they were charged with nor, God forbid, any details of their case. I’ll just stop there. There’s so much more to add to this list but what’s the point? MAGA swallows all the BS Trump sends their way. Must taste better than it sounds…..
Skibum says
Absolutely correct! And let’s not forget that as promised multiple times before his second term started that he is all over those nasty pedophile child molester associates of Jeffrey Epstein, unmasking each and every one and making sure his DOJ is seeking justice for the victims, right, Dennis? Right???
I think “all over” are the right words, as the WH and the DOJ have simply washed their hands of the Epstein Files and have moved on to much more critically important things like ensuring the convicted felon tax cheat, his tax cheating company and his offspring never again have to face or be held accountable for their tax frauds they have committed against the U.S. Treasury.
Ain’t grift GREAT… well, at least for one specific felonious family anyway.
Laurel says
The magas never cared about pedophiles, they thought they were going to expose only Democrats. When they found out otherwise, their deep concern for children melted away.
Trump’s f*ck up with the reflection pool is currently over $16,000,000.
“The cost of Trump’s East Wing renovation and ballroom project has risen to $600 million, with about $293 million from private sources and the remainder covered by taxpayer funds from the Secret Service, White House Military Office, and Executive Residence.”
– Search Assist, U.S. House of Representatives, USAFacts
We know that maga doesn’t care about this either. Trump does multiple “Truth Social” posts daily, and does what for us? Start a world war he said he wouldn’t do?
The list of abuse and corruption is so long, it’s impossible to keep up with…as planned.
Maga doesn’t care if he lies, in fact, they like it.
Samuel L. Bronkowitz says
You gonna be on the front lines or are you just another loudmouthed maga guy that talks a lot but wants young kids to die for him
Dennis C Rathsam says
Im not AFFRAID of shit pal! Ya.ll should worry about the socialist taking over the Democratic party! TRUMPS doing everything possible. The 1st president to have the balls to do something! TRUMP is saving your kids & grandkids from a nuclear Iran! Time the donkeys of this world to face reality. We baby boomers learned 1st hand about communism, & socialism. We lived through the cold war, the bay of pigs! Name a country where they thrive with this crap? Look at CUBA, no food no electric, no nothing….You think their happy? Think again
Samuel L. Bronkowitz says
So you’re going to the front lines then?
Skibum says
Oh really? You are delusional to think he “has the balls to do something”? How about the truth, for ONCE, Dennis? Like… he has the bone spurs so he DIDN’T have to do something… for his own damn country! How about that! He is a yellow bellied, tax cheating, woman abusing, lying con man, that you apparently love because you are so buried in a very unpatriotic personality cult that you cannot even think rationally anymore.
Laurel says
He so f*ucked up and the world knows it, and the world is watching us flop around like a fish out of water.
Now it has gone beyond embarrassment.
BobAnonAnon says
Given how horrific and personal the attack was, it had a somewhat different psychoemotional impact on the Israelis. The attacks on 9/11, though no less horrific, were impersonal; they attacked objects housing people. My interpretation of Hamas’s attack was that they intended to drive the Israelis into a frenzy of revenge-driven madness with the intent of turning the world against Jews. That plan is succeeding. This only works on minds that can’t differentiate between the crimes and transgressions of a government and its citizens. Sadly, that is most of us. And the Israeli state’s failure to adequately protect Palestinians from Jewish settlers encroaching on their land, murdering them, and dispossessing the dispossessed also continues to turn the world against the Jews instead of the State of Israel.
O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross, but not exactly the sin Bach was thinking when he wrote it. It is our evolutionary biological heritage that is the sin we carry but will not face.
Pogo says
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=origin+of+death+to+america
“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ”
― Archimedes
Skibum says
I posted a comment to the Aug. 3 political cartoon but I should have waited and posted it today instead because, if you took the time to read my comment yesterday, it really is more in tune with today’s political cartoon. In either case, the toddler in the WH seems to be stuck on his swing, or maybe a see-saw, both of which are in the sand box of his own making where he continues his childish behavior to the detriment of America’s economy and wellbeing. So far, it doesn’t appear that there are any adults with backbones in the maga majority who are willing to conduct an intervention and clean up the self-defecating toddler’s stinky mess he continues to make all around him.
Skibum says
Correction… Aug. 2 cartoon
Pogo says
“Corruption by Any Other Name (Part I)
A two-part series of commentaries by Barrington Salmon examines the consequences of decades of Republican rule in Florida
Aug 04, 2026
By Barrington Salmon
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” – Margaret Atwood
Republicans have long held a stranglehold on the political levers of power in Florida. Yet, in one of the surest signs of hubris, the longer they’ve controlled the direction of state politics, the more they’ve demonstrated the belief that only they have the prudence, political instincts, or sagacity to properly run the state.
In almost three decades of one-party rule, Florida has become a swamp where haughty men and women strut in costumes of arrogance and condescension, foisting partisan political beliefs on the majority; stuffing their pockets and those of their wealthy, connected friends; and protecting the well-heeled while disregarding the will of the people…”
“…God help us all.
Tomorrow: Corruption by Another Name (Part II)”
https://www.jcbruce.com/p/corruption-by-any-other-name-part
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=Margaret+Atwood
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=Barrington+Salmon
Ed P says
Hello Pogo,
Here’s an interesting exercise for the curious.
Compare California to Florida.
Laurel says
““Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” – Margaret Atwood”
“You can’t fix stupid.” – Ron White
Both quotes are clearly appropriate these days.
Brutality laid bare says
Pierre -what you have laid bare is the inhumanity of Israeli settlers and the Israeli government’s complicity with their “cleansing” rage against Palestinian refugees. It is no wonder that an ever increasing majority of countries and world organizations criticize and shun Israel.
Sherry says
LOL! Iran has trump by the “short hairs”!!! trump has created for himself a “No Win Situation” by letting Netanyahu pull his puppet strings right into the middle of the aggressive “Israeli” agenda for the middle East! It’s horrific and tragic on so many levels, for sure! But ridiculous and funny at the same time! Sure wishing Hegseth had not disgracefully fired all those military experts, eh???
How is your latest trip to the grocery store/gas pump, Maga? How are your health insurance premiums doing? Better hope you never see a hurricane again, as FEMA will not be there to help you and there is no one to repair your roof! Not a problem because Climate Change is a big ole “HOAX”, right? LOL! LOL! LOL! OR, maybe Dr. Fauci is to blame for all of those things too?? LOL!
Laurel says
Megan Kelly stated that Dr. Fauci was worse than Epstein.
Some folks will swallow any kind of contaminated swill.
Tony Mack says
IRANIAN NEGOTIATIONS —
So, the negotiating representatives are: for the United States — two real estate sales guys and a mutt who changed his name three times;
For the Iranians: Two people who have PhDs and previous negotiating experience; another with PhD studies, also a trained negotiator.
Now — what the hell could possible go wrong???
Laurel says
Tony Mack: Trump.