NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 28, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Wasa." Beatrice's crown is replaced with a dollop of wasabi.

Things are heating up. #BeeTheResistance #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb #Hivemind

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 27, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "GUM." Beatrice is replaced with a yellow Gumby with black bee stripes

Is there any line today that is not bendable? #BeeTheResistance #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb #Hivemind

Who needs a king and queen? We have a Boss, America. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee #BruceSpringsteen

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 15, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Wabi-Sa." Beatrice's crown is replaced with an imperfect, hand-crafted bowl. A column to the left gives the definition of "wabi-sabi": a Japanese aesthetic or worldview charactized by finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, or simplicity - OED

Too many people in our country find beauty in the incompetent and ignorant. (We miss being in Japan. Sigh.) #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 14, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Bri-." Beatrice's crown erased and she has Trump hair. She's laughing. A golden plane flies above.

Time for Sam to start including a new "-ee" word...and for Americans to start calling it like it is. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 13, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Gab." Beatrice's crown is erased and she has speech bubbles above her head that say Bzzz and buzz, buzz, buzz

All talk and no action only gets us so far. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for March 12, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Nicholas Nickle-" Beatrice's crown is replaced with a top hat and she wears a cravat.

‘We have fallen upon strange times, and Heaven only knows the end of them" (says Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby... and half of the US population) #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 11, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Hap-". "Mother's Day!" is added after "Bee": "Hap-BEE Mother's Day!" Beatrice's crown is erased and pink tulips with green leaves line the bottom of the image.

This one's for the #Hivemind moms. #BeeTheResistance #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 10, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Long-horned." Beatrice's crown is erased and she has the horns of longhorn cattle.

Long-horned bees are the most diverse group of bees in the Apidae family. Diversity in nature is key to survival, resilience and growth. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 9, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Happy" and "Day" is added after Bee ("Happy Bee Day"). Beatrice's crown is replaced with a purple birthday hat and a blue balloon floats with Bea's dotted line as a string.

Happy Birthday to the #nytsb! Celebrate! Joy is an act of resistance! #BeeTheResistance #NYTSpellingBee #Hivemind

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 8, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "May" and question mark is added after "Bee". Beatrice's crown is replaced with a thought bubble that says "hmm..." and she has a quizzical look

Is it possible that Trump really doesn't understand the Constitution? Is it possible that Lisa thought her MET Gala look was a good choice? Is it possible that #SamEzersky excluded CARACAL by accident (for the 38th time)? Probably not. But... #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 7, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Sea." Beatrice's crown is replaced with a sailor hat and she wears a sailor neckerchief. Wave blue lines across the bottom of the image indicate water

C's MOTTO: Don't be an A-hole. Seabee MOTTO: “Construimus, Batuimus.” (For more on MOTTO listen to T&B S7E8 "Is it Legal"? apple.co/44nWGXn) #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee #podcast

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 6, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Heebee Jee" and an "s" comes after B to read "Heebee Jeebees". Beatrice's crown is erased and she looks on with fright. A second scaredy bee enters the picture as well. The lines and letters are slightly doubled to give a sense of unease.

Even the #nytsb can't save us from these scary times. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for May 5, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Charmy." Beatrice is replaced with an image of Sonic's Charmy Bee

Inspired by Japanese #manga (and America's anti-monarchical roots) we give you today's Queen alternative: Sonic's Charmy Bee is "an extremely hyperactive 6-year old bee with a heart as big as his stinger...." info.sonicretro.org/Charmy_Bee #BeeTheResistance #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb #Hivemind

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 20, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Doo." Beatrice's crown is erased and she's smoking a joint

Hey, it's legal in NYC. (On this week's episode of T&B we're playing...Is it LEGAL? Check it out! bit.ly/43XgQqY) #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 18, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "To." Beatrice's crown is erased and a skull hovers above

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 19, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "or not to." Beatrice's crown is erased and she is stabbed with a poison sword

It's a special 2-day No Crowns edition. Hamlet-Style! #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 17, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Fris." A crownless Beatrice is printed on a yellow frisbee and a dog jumps in the air to catch it.

Oh, to be a dog. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 16, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Go." Beatrice's crown is erased. The background image is a photo of a camel in the desert

When the dust settles what will be left? #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 15, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "B." "-8" is added after the word "Bee". Beatrice and her crown her replaced by BB-8 with Beatrice's wings

Yes, we know we recently did a #StarWars post. No, we're not running out of ideas. We just need the Force to be extra with us all right now, okay? #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 14, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Crab." Beatrice's crown is erased and she has two big crab claws.

Doesn't even begin to describe how we're feeling right now. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 13, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "CAB." Beatrice's crown is replaced with a taxi driver's cap.

Doing taxes today brought to mind taxis. And of course the gutting of the IRS. Good times all around. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 12, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Flow." Beatrice's crown is erased and Flowbee is suck up her bee fuzz. A red "As seen on NYT" graphic is in the lower left

Remember when this was high tech and it was the only thing you were worried might sell out 😂 #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 11, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Snob." Beatrice's crown is erased. Her face has been altered with a turned up nose and supercilious look.

Nobody likes snobby, but it's still better than monarchy. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

We didn't even know when we made today's #BeeTheResistance post. Maybe we're psychic. Probably not. But maybe.

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 10, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "GATS." Beatrice's crown is replaced with a flapper headband and she has a 1920s style pearl necklace dangling beneath her

"It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people..." #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 9, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Apple" in the font used by Applebee's restaurant. Beatrice's crown is replaced with the Applebee's apple logo.

Maybe we can convince the grabber-in-chief to reach for a cheeseburger instead of a crown? #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 8, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "Walla." Beatrice appears as a yellow wallaby with black strips and wings for ears. No crown.

Day 36 of saying "No thanks" to monarchy. It's really not that hard. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpellingBee #nytsb

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 7, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "O". After Bee the word "-wan" is added. Beatrice's crown is gone and she is wearing a jedi knight robe and carrying a blue light saber

May the force be with us. #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #NYTSpelllingBee #nytsb #StarWars #jedi @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

NYTimes Queen Bee graphic for April 6, 2025. Queen is crossed out and replaced with "RU." Beatrice's crown is erased and her body is colored sparkling, ruby red.

If the president were a gem, he wouldn't crave a crown. (Catching up on the weekend!) #BeeTheResistance #Hivemind #nytsb #NYTSpellingBee

People marching with signs that say: Lift up Seniors, Hands off our clean air, Lift up libraries, Lift up voters, Trans Rights

Crows of people protesting with signs that say: Hands off out Constitution, Hands off America's Promise, Hands off our Data

Too busy BEING the resistance to #BeeTheResistance yesterday. #HandsOff #Philly