From Clay Jones: If placing illegal immigrants—and in many cases, documented immigrants—seems cruel, that’s the idea. The goal of this regime and the MAGA program as a whole is cruelty. A detention, processing, and deportation camp for undocumented migrants in the Florida Everglades is known as Alligator Alcatraz. According to White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, a one-way flight is the only viable option. It is remote and encircled by harsh terrain and deadly wildlife. Yes, I do believe that having rapists, unlawful murderers, and other horrible criminals in a prison center with alligators around serves as a deterrent to their attempts to flee. Where are all these lawful murderers, I ask her first. The image of a prison in the middle of a violent swamp is one that the administration adores. If there were any decent Burt Reynolds films, this one sounds like a horrible one. [] Alligator Alcatraz merchandise is already being sold by the Florida GOP, and they had to act quickly to outsell the Trump Organization. During World War II, the US government interned Japanese Americans in camps; this may have a similar effect. near addition to Trump’s plans to establish a new camp near Guantanamo, DeSantis and Noem are undoubtedly considering other locations that offer plenty of opportunities for tough-guy picture ops. They’re thinking about the merchandise, at the very least.Visit Clay Jones’ Substack to learn more.Please complete this form to add your event to the Briefing and Live Calendar.
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A Quick Look at Today:
Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, will host the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. More than 30 local vendors will be selling prepared meals, fruit, veggies, handcrafted goods, and local artwork. Flagler Strong, a non-profit, hosts the market.
Every month, the Flagler Beach All Stars start their beach clean-up in front of the Flagler Beach pier at 9 a.m. We welcome all volunteers.
Cornerstone Center, 608 E. Moody Blvd., Bunnell hosts a Sunshine and Sandals Social every first Saturday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. to introduce newcomers to Flagler County. We enjoy discussing dog-friendly parks and beaches, local social clubs that you may join, and well-liked eateries in the area.
Daytona Beach’s Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, will host Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at 8 p.m. It costs $8.50 for general entry. The Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in delivering fast-paced improvised comedy on Tuesdays and the first Saturday of each month.
Byblos: Shakespeare left it to the rest of us to more awkwardly query what’s in a book title: would it smell as delicious in translation? Juliet wonders what’s in a name. The Carter of the Providence, written by Georges Simenon in 1930, was the first of his 75 books to feature his sulky investigator Maigret. The boat that is implicated in the assassination of the stunning unvirginal Mary at the heart of the conspiracy is referred to as the “Charretier de la Providence” in French. Since cart pushers are no longer as common as they were along the Erie and other canals, I don’t know of many individuals who should be aware of what a carter is. It would be like attempting to explain the rotary phone to a fifteen-year-old if we discussed carters with readers today. I don’t know why, but the word “carter” doesn’t carry the same connotation as the French word “charretier,” which may mean both “cart-pusher” and “hoodlum.” Instead, maybe we shouldn’t investigate why: Prejudice is so ingrained in language, and in this instance, it is rooted in bourgeois assumptions and class-conscious prejudices: When I was a boy in Lebanon, my parents used to yell at me and say things like, “Don’t act like acharretrier.” This was really cruel, not to me because I was a Catholic and should have received all the punishments, but to the rambunctious charretiers who crisscrossed our street and whose carts of fresh and lush produce we would buy days’ worth of food at a time. The carters of the Erie Canal, or even of Canal Street in Manhattan, were probably never subjected to such disdain. thus’s most likely why Simenon’s novel was titled thus in the original English and American editions.For the same reason that Carter wouldn’t, the title “The Crime at Lock 14,” or “Maigret Meets a Milord,” as Penguin in England dubbed it in 1963, wouldn’t be popular in the United States. Harper’s Bazaar serialized it in its first three editions in 1934. By 2003, Penguin had resorted to using a more literal term.The first chapter’s title and the location of Mary’s dead body are found in Lock 14. Compared to what the top Italian publisher decided to label it, it is more literal.For several reasons, the title Maigret is Moved (Maigret si commuove) would not be appropriate in the United States. If the Anglo translation loses the emotional puns due to Saxon literalism, the Italian version evokes them: simply pronounce “commuove” a few times and see if you don’t feel a small stir in the pube. The entire drama is set over four wet days on the canal system and its horse-drawn barges, namely around Lock 14 at Dizy. Although there are 15 locks along the way, the 42-mile canal, which was finished in 1846, is lateral to the Marne River in the same manner as the Intracoastal is to the American coastline, allowing boats to transit between Vitry-le-Fran ois and Dizy more calmly. Despite the fact that not a single glass is poured in Le Charretier, this is Champagne country. White wine and whiskey are abundant (every Simenon book is a suppressed plea to AA). Tourism has idealized the horse-drawn sector, which is fading. Boats with diesel engines are on horseback. In the summer of 1930, Simenon was only 27 years old when he wrote the book in a matter of weeks on his Ostrogoth. He had moored the boat at Morsang-sur-Seine, a town about 25 miles south of Paris the size of an American subdivision, whose tourism office in May and June 2025 offered what it called immersive tours as if hosted by Simenon. It’s not necessary to go that far. Every Simenon work immerses the reader in the setting he selects for his narrative. In actuality, the plot is merely incidental. We return to the book’s title, which is so profoundly provocative in French and to some extent in English if we choose Lock 14: locks have their own mysticism. It’s about the characters, and geography is always a strong, frequently deterministic character. And the cover hasn’t been cracked yet. That is Simenon’s level of excellence.
P.T.
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After the skipper took a hot toddy at the caf as the doors were opened, the diesel engine of the tanker started coughing at 4:30, but it didn’t go until a quarter of an hour later. When the two carters saw him, he had just departed and his boat was not yet on deck. In the direction of the towpath, one of them was dragging his horses. The other hand found a cold body while searching through the straw for his whip. He pulled out his lamp and illuminated the corpse that would stun Dizy and disturb the canal’s life, impressed by the idea that he recognized a human face.
from Simenon’s 1930 book Le Charrétier de la Providence.
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