Years ago, Trump falsely predicted that President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran because he would be incapable of negotiating. Except it was President Obama who successfully negotiated for Iran to end its nuclear program, and the treaty was working. Iran was complying with all the conditions. It was Trump who canceled the agreement and is now bombing Iran because he’s incapable of negotiating. And why would Iran want to negotiate with Donald Trump when they know they can’t trust him. How many treaties and agreements has Trump broken? Iran doesn’t have a nuclear bomb today, or Trump and Bibi would not have bombed them. But Donald Trump just taught Iran that they need a nuclear weapon. We may be slow learners of history, but the Iranians may not be. We forgot the history lessons of Vietnam and invaded Iraq. Iran probably remembers our demands on Iraq and Libya to lose their nuclear programs, only to see their regimes overthrown later.” Read more at Clay Jones’s Substack.
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Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. The council will discuss property taxes, the potential sale of the Palm Harbor Golf Club, and its public works’ hauling operations. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop. 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.
Budgeting by Values: A Free, Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. every fourth Tuesday of the month organized by Flagler Cares and Truist Bank, and presented by Financial Inclusion Leader Vladimir Rodriguez. To sign up or get information, call 386/319-9483, text 386/986-0107, or email [email protected].
The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership Meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). The meeting is open to the public, including non-members. To become a member, go here.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 6 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here. The meeting is open to the public and includes public speaking segments.
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club at the Flagler Beach Public Library meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Notably: After our Dear Leader bombed Iran, the LAPD posted the tweet above, a nice bit of humanism and reassurance. Our hearts should go out to “the victims and families impacted by the recent bombings,” not just in Iran. We are not at war with that country. The people working under Fordo’s mountain are not exactly revolutionary guards taking Americans hostage. Imagine if, say, Hitler’s or Tojo’s storm troopers had managed a bombing raid on Los Alamos in the early months of 1945. Oppenheimer. Fermi. Rabi. Segré. Teller. Bethe. Wiped out. All of them brilliant. All of them civilian. Whatever we may think of the ethics of the atom bomb, the ethics of humanism preempt. An attack like that would have been brazen and in its own way brilliant, as ongoing attacks on Iran are more cheap shots and cowardly. But our hearts would have gone out to the victims and their families. So the LAPD’s tweet was courageous and welcome. Then came the apology. The offensive, inappropriate, unacceptable apology that tells you where we are as a nation, how low we are willing to fall. The apology called the earlier statement a “failure” that would be investigated. It is as if John Winthrop and John Cotton gangraped Anne Hutchinson. In this case, someone was about to be defenestrated.
—P.T.
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June 2025
Tuesday, Jun 24
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Tuesday, Jun 24
Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Jun 24
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Jun 24
Budgeting by Values: A Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills
Tuesday, Jun 24
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Tuesday, Jun 24
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Jun 24
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
Wednesday, Jun 25
In Court: Zachary Tuohey Status Hearing
Flagler County courthouse
Wednesday, Jun 25
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Meeting
Airline Room, Daytona Beach International Airport
Wednesday, Jun 25
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Wednesday, Jun 25
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Wednesday, Jun 25
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Public Library
Wednesday, Jun 25
‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council Members
Palm Coast Community Center
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The town’s ever-vigilant curiosity, which saw in the dark, found them out. And he did not care. The talk went around under cover of righteousness. Need was the cause of it. The little groups that the talk stirred in the stores and the kitchens and the street were like people lighting torches at a fire. It was as if Jack and Rose, like other lovers before and after them, had been elected to stir from the ashes of pretense and fear the light of a vital flame. While it condemned them the town needed them and praised them in the darkness of its heart. The town talked and looked askance, and waited eagerly for more news out of that dark and fragrant garden from which it felt itself in exile. And so this coupling went into the town’s mind, to belong to its history and its hope, even against its will. Even as the knowledge of it fades, it remains, an inflection of the heart, troubling and consoling the night watches of lonely husbands and wives like a phrase from a forgotten song.”
–From Wendell Berry’s The Memory of Old Jack (1974).
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