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Due to a lack of quorum, the Flagler County Tourist Development Council was once more canceled.
The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State will hold an open discussion on the subject from noon to 1 p.m. at the Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase required), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). The discussion will be free-flowing and open to the public. If you want the best directions, call (386) 445-0852. Everyone is welcome! Everybody’s opinion matters. For additional information, contact Merrill at 804-914-4460 or send an email to [email protected].
The quarterly Help Night hosted by Flagler Cares takes place at the Flagler County Village Community Room, located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast, from 3 to 7 p.m. As a one-stop assistance event, Flagler Cares and other community partners plan and host Help Night. There will be informational and resource-sharing representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and numerous more organizations. The public event is free to attend and will provide help accessing a range of services, such as autism testing, legal consultations for fair housing, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, help applying for SNAP and Medicaid, behavioral health services, and much more. The Early Learning Coalition will organize and provide free screenings for children’s hearing and vision. Don’t forget to take advantage of our Back to School Rummage Sale! Get deeply reduced apparel, accessories, shoes, home décor, and more. All sales go directly toward funding our kids initiatives. Please contact [email protected] or 386-319-9483, ext. 0, for additional information about this event.
Every Wednesday at 1:20 PM, the Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group gathers in a private home in Palm Coast. The store receives a $2 love donation for the usage of their space. Please bring your own book if you have one. Everyone enrolled in the course is welcome. At 1:00 PM, there is also an introductory group. Aynne McAvoy facilitates the group; for information and location, contact her at [email protected].
The Flagler County Public Library hosts a weekly chess club for teenagers aged 9 to 18:Do you prefer playing chess, experimenting with new moves, or perhaps engaging in friendly rivalry? Every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m., the Flagler County Public Library hosts a chess club at the Teen Spot. From novices who wish to learn how to play to more experienced players, everyone is welcome. For additional information, email us at [email protected] or call the Youth Service department at 386-446-6763, ext. 3714.
Notably, a) its users are the issue, and b) Musk doesn’t give a damn. Sure, advertisers are losing faith in that tangle of horrors.According to Statista, Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter was finalized exactly two years ago, and it would be an enormous understatement to suggest that these two years have been difficult. With enormous layoffs, the removal of popular features, and the seemingly arbitrary addition of new ones, Musk has not only completely transformed Twitter but also renamed it X, allegedly as a first step toward transforming it into the all-in-one program the eccentric billionaire hopes to create in the future. As befits these intensely divisive times, opinions on whether Musk’s acquisition—recently dubbed the worst deal since the Financial Crisis by the Wall Street Journal—has improved or worsened the platform are mixed. Some claim that Musk has made Twitter—or X, for that matter—the last stronghold of free expression in a society that has mostly given in to wokeness, while others believe that the absence of content filtering has made it a breeding ground for hate, conspiracy theories, and misinformation.
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I wrote a history of The Family, a Christian nationalist elite movement, in 2008. Although the leaders of the Family had long praised Hitler’s organizing skills, I maintained that this preference did not warrant the use of what I later dubbed “The F Word”—fascism. That Christian nationalism is a distinct form of authoritarianism is what I meant, not a defense. In my opinion, Christian nationalism in the US was kept from ever really embracing the cult of personality required to support genuine fascism because of its purported adherence to some form of Christ. I was mistaken. In recent years, the arguments against calling militant Trumpism fascist have gradually faded. Along with Trump’s personality, the movement his presidency sped up now fosters paramilitaries, exalts violence as a purifying force, thrives on othering its opponents, accuses itself of being persecuted for being White, diagnoses the country as decadent, and embraces the revisionist myth of a MAGA past—best illustrated by its desire to have Trump’s likeness added to Mount Rushmore.
from a footnote in The Undertow (2023) by Jeff Sharlet.
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