Now that I have your attention….

Bees and the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

The Trump Administration is closing the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland.

When 1.6 million bee colonies collapsed between June 2024 and March 2025, the scientists working there immediately looked into the situation. In six months, they determined that the cause was a virus spread by pesticide-resistant mites.

Would someone please tell Trump that 80% of the crops in the U.S. are pollinated by bees? Please tell him that food does not originate in the kitchens manned by his chefs. It comes from farms.

This is a man who marveled recently over the “old-fashioned” word “groceries” and didn’t know what a “corner store” was.

The safeguards for our nation’s health are falling like dominoes at Trump’s command. I guess he was serious last week when he said he might run for Prime Minister of Israel when he is through here – I guess when there is nothing left to break or destroy.

And some of y’all thought I was being overly dramatic when I accused Trump of hating nature.

A White House App

Government phones will now have a White House app installed per White House mandate. It includes a feed of the President’s social media posts and a button with a pre-written text message: “Greatest President Ever” to be sent to Trump.

The app reportedly also includes “Stuck in line at La Guardia? Blame a Democrat.”

The Hatch Act of 1939 is not being enforced. Perhaps it will be again after the mid-term elections.

U.S. Government is asking for Volunteers

With fears that the Ebola virus will enter the United States on someone entering the country via one of four major airports, yesterday the government asked for volunteers to screen people.

What could possibly go wrong?

This is what happens when your alleged-businessman President decimates the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health.

Nondisclosure Agreements

The Trump Administration is laying plans for all federal employees to be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

Trump claims that his regime is the “most transparent” ever, so what is it that he does not want us to know?

The U.S. Government is not a business. People within the government who work with classified information already know that they are to never disclose state secrets, etc.

Trump wants to silence everyone who works in the government.

This is what you get when you elect a corrupt businessman.

The University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors goes off the rails!

All the crazies aren’t in Washington, DC.

The 24 members of the UNC Board of Governors are appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly (our state legislature).

Peter Hans. the President of the UNC System oversees 16 universities, a specialized high school (The NC School of the Arts), the UNC Healthcare system, and a statewide public TV network.

He has a lot of responsibility and, for all I know, he is doing a fine job.

His annual salary is $600,000. Apparently, Mr. Han is having trouble making ends meet – even as each of the member institutions of higher learning in the system he oversees are constantly having to tighten their belts, layoff underpaid professors, eliminate some vice-chancellor positions, slashing some degree program, and the UNC-TV network is reeling from Trump taking an ax to public TV.

This week, the UNC Board of Governors gave Mr. Han a bonus of $493,500.

I don’t know of any printable words to say to that.

Support animals and HUD

The New York Times obtained a memo sent out by the U.S. Department of Housing and Development’s (HUD) Fair Housing Office last Friday.

HUD will immediately stop recognizing emotional support animals and will tighten its definition of what qualifies as a service animal for disable tenants.

The Trump Administration is hard at work protecting the American people… at least, that’s what Trump says.

We have a U.S. President who wants $1.776 billion for a slush fund to reward his minions who attempted a coup for him on January 6, 2021, and he wants $1 billion for a ballroom. He has gotten us into an endless war in Iran.

But the biggest problem we have in America today is apparently too many military veterans with PTSD are living in subsidized housing with a support dog?

Anything to draw our attention away from the Epstein Files.

How does anyone still defend and support this?

The Republican “talking heads” on TV still defend everything Trump says and everything he does.

They laugh when other guests on talk shows express concern over the demolition of the East Wing of the White House, the $1.4 billion ballroom, the 250-foot tall Trump Arch, the $1.775 billion Trump slush fund, Trump’s face to go on the proposed $250 bill – although it is against the law for a living person’s likeness to be put on our currency, his weekly flights on Air Force One to Florida to play golf, his falling asleep regularly during Cabinet meetings, his vulgar mouth, his sweet deal that he and his family are forever immune from Internal Revenue Service audits, his more than 3,700 personal stock trades in the first quarter of 2026, his desecrating the grounds of the White House for pugilists to perform for his birthday, the cementing over of the White House Rose Garden, the tackying-up of the entire White House with gaudy gold doo-dahs, directing his personal law firm (formerly known as the United States Department of Justice) to go after anyone and everyone who has ever hurt his feelings (such as E. Jean Carroll), and his inability to speak in a complete sentence.

I could go on. The things I have listed off the top of my head are the tip of the iceberg.

I feel like we are on a ship of fools heading straight for that iceberg.

It is baffling. I will never understand it. Never.

Janet

The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.