Frimmin' on the jim-jam, Frippin' at the krotz ...

Let's talk about Rebecca Woods, the Massachusetts beekeeper who just got sentenced to 6 months in jail for unleashing bees on sheriff's deputies.

Yes, deputies got stung. One was hospitalized. That part of the story is front and center in every headline.

But here's what's buried in paragraph four: They were there to evict an 80-year-old man with cancer from his home.

An 80-year-old man. With cancer. Being forced out of his house while he was at the library trying to print a motion to stop the eviction. His neighbor showed up with a trailer full of bees because she was desperately trying to buy him enough time to save his home.

She got 6 months in jail. He lost the house anyway.

We are being asked — again — to center our outrage on law enforcement doing their jobs, while the actual victim of this story quietly disappears from the narrative. Nobody's getting sentenced for making an elderly cancer patient homeless. Nobody's getting charged for that particular act of cruelty.

And this is the thing people don't want to say out loud: institutional violence doesn't look like a weapon. It looks like paperwork.

It looks like cutting Medicaid so a cancer patient can't afford treatment. It looks like gutting school lunch programs so kids go hungry. It looks like slashing SNAP benefits so families ration food. It looks like an eviction notice served to a man in his 80s who is fighting for his life. People literally die from these decisions — quietly, off-camera, with no dramatic footage to go viral — and we are conditioned to shrug.

But let some bees sting a deputy, and suddenly everyone has feelings.

Ignored AIDS Epidemic While Tens of Thousands Died

A long read to be sure but essential.

You will be tempted to run to Costco and buy a year’s worth of everything.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist or a prepper but stop and think what happens when society literally runs out of gas and diesel. Nothing can be delivered: no food, no medicine. Crazy? Improbable?

In a victory for science advocates, a federal court blocks the Trump administration’s push to dismantle NCAR

By Sam Brasch

Jun. 1, 2026, 5:22 pm

A federal court blocked the Trump administration from taking initial steps to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on Monday, marking a major victory for defenders of the marquee climate research hub headquartered in Boulder.

Colorado U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson issued the temporary injunction in response to a lawsuit filed in March by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the nonprofit overseeing NCAR.

The complaint argues that the federal government targeted the center as a part of a “campaign of retribution” against Colorado for imprisoning former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, violating administrative procedures.

Trump Has Given Up

No longer interested in governing, he is filled with rage and obsessed with revenge

Donald Trump will never admit that his gratuitous Iran war has been a total disaster. But the debacle has clearly broken him. So we are now saddled with a president who has given up governing, but will maintain his grip on power wherever he can. And his power will be exclusively focused on rage and revenge.

Hence Trump has appointed Bill Pulte as the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a position critical to national security.

The word “acting” is crucial. The statute creating the position of DNI explicitly requires that the appointee “shall have extensive national security expertise.” Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has no background in anything related to national security. So Trump is trying to bypass a Congressional confirmation process that would put Pulte under the spotlight. Even Republicans might shed their slavish obedience at this point, given Trump’s plummeting poll numbers and his betrayal of John Cornyn.

But pointing out that Pulte is unqualified for his new job doesn’t convey the extent to which Trump is trolling America with this new appointment.

Imagine you are trying to get an electrician so you can get your new homes wiring installed. Your neighbor, who hates you, really wants something bad to happen to you or your home. You are oblivious to this and, unfortunately, a rather lazy individual who doesn't even do the smallest bit of work to find the right guy to do the job. Instead, you hire someone you like, but who doesn't know what they are doing. Since he doesn't know what he's doing, he does a LOT wrong, and in the end, he doesn't get much done, but says he finished.

Want to guess what is the most likely outcome? Yeah, your house is going to catch fire and burn to the ground, and that neighbor of yours is going to be so happy. If they have enough money maybe they will come in and buy up your land that no longer has a house? Maybe they will just convince your other neighbors that you are bad and a threat to their homes and lives because of your stupid decisions.

Trump Humiliated as Staff Ordered to Remove All Traces of Him

All traces of President Donald Trump’s name must be scrubbed from the Kennedy Center by June 12—two days before his 80th birthday.

Lawyers for the historic performing arts center, which Trump slapped his name on late last year, informed employees in a Thursday memo that they “must immediately change email signatures, letterhead, and other documents to reflect the name as ‘The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,’ or ‘Kennedy Center.’”

The memo also instructed that any changes to interior or exterior signage, including Trump’s name tacked on to the building’s facade, must be switched back to its original state by Friday, June 12, according to The New York Times.