Spirit of America Bookstore U.S.  Timeline  –  2021  to  Present Ancient Times - 3500 B.C.E to 1490 C.E. 1491-1800    •    1801-1900    •    1901-1930    •    1931-1950    •    1951-1968    •    1969-2000 •    2001-2010    •    2011-2016    •    2017-2018    •    2019-2020    •    The Looming Future? The Biden-Harris Era    •    2021    •    2022    •    RECENT EVENTS With the swearing-in of Emperor Trump in January 2017, the fascist factions of the Republican Party were in control of all three branches of the U.S. government. As-of January 2019, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, but the long slog of Emperor's Trump's reign got worse with his mis-handling of the Wuhan Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. The  Biden-Harris  Era 2020 Nov 3: The critical Election 2020: America vs. Fascism Redux. In the 2020 presidential election, the total number of electoral votes was 538, of which Joe Biden received 306 and Donald Trump only 232. The popular vote was 81,281,888 for Biden-Harris and 74,223,251 to re-elect Trump-Pence. 2020 Dec 31:    77,124 people died of coronavirus in the U.S. in December, making it the deadliest month of the pandemic. Also, the United States managed to administer fewer than 2.8 million coronavirus vaccine shots before 2020 ended, far below the goal of 20 million that federal officials had set for the year. The  Year  2 0 2 1 2021 January: ECONOMIC HUMOR - Libertarian economist Mark Skousen announced his prediction of a 'Decade of Gold' bull market. 2021 Sat Jan 2:    President Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger by telephone, seeking to pressure him into 'finding 11,780 votes' in Trump's favor, with witnesses listening in on both ends; the transcript and a recording of the telephone call was released next day by The Washington Post. David J. Worley, an Atlanta lawyer and the most senior member of the Georgia Elections Board, said that the transcript of the call amounted to 'probable cause' to believe that President Trump had violated Georgia election code. 2021 Sun Jan 3:    The United States surpassed 350,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths per Johns Hopkins University; there have been more than 20 million recorded infections in the country - both figures lead the world (as per-capita statistics). 2021 Sun Jan 3: The 117th United States Congress convened; Senate membership is temporarily 47-51-2, controlled by the GOP but two Senate seats in contention in a run-off election on January 5th might change that; and the House is 222-211, controlled by Democrats (down 11, 2 open seats); the House narrowly re-elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to the position of Speaker (the vote was 216-209). 2021 Sun Jan 3: Cryptocurrency Bitcoin jumped to a record high of more than $34,800 on the 12th anniversary of the cryptocurrency network's creation. Demand for Bitcoin has driven up its price over the last year as investors bet that it will continue to become a mainstream payment method. Bitcoin's value quadrupled in 2020, and the price broke through the $30,000 barrier at the start of the new year less than three weeks after it first surpassed $20,000. Bitcoin got a boost from PayPal last fall when it said that they would soon allow sales using the Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrencies. 2021 Mon Jan 4: The Alphabet Workers Union launched public existence in an op-ed for the The New York Times by the union's executive chair Parul Koul and vice chair Chewy Shaw, both of whom are Google software engineers; 200 workers at Google's parent company Alphabet 'organized in secret for the better part of a year and elected its leadership last month'; the union leaders said that the labor group will be open to all Alphabet employees and contractors. 2021 Mon Jan 4: U.S. stock indexes plunged on the first trading day of 2021, as investors remained focused on the coronavirus pandemic in the new year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index was down by as much as 725 points during the day before regaining some ground and closing down by 'only' 507 points, or 1.7 percent. The S&P 500 Index and the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite Index fell by 1.8 percent. The Dow and the S&P 500 had just set records as 2020 ended after an extended late-year rally fueled partly by optimism about the rollout of the first coronavirus vaccines. 2021 Mon Jan 4: Police in Washington, DC arrested Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys group, and charged him with one misdemeanor count of destruction of property, on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter banner torn from a historic Black church during a pro-Trump march on 12 December 2020 that resulted in violent clashes. Police added felony weapons charges after he was found to be carrying two high-capacity ammunition magazines. African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of two historically black churches targeted during the December protest, revealed that the church had filed a lawsuit against both Tarrio and the Proud Boys organization. After his release on January 5th, Tarrio was banned from entering Washington, DC except for trial or meeting with his lawyers. 2021 Tue Jan 5: Critical runoff election for BOTH of the U.S. Senate seats in Georgia: late evening vote tallies showed that Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock won; Warnock is the state's first Black senator. Democrat Jon Ossoff was leading in Georgia Senate runoffs, his narrow lead widened next day as the final votes were counted. Ossoff is Georgia's first Jewish senator; he also will be the youngest sitting senator, at age 33. The two victories gave the Democratic party technical control of the U.S. Senate. 2021 Jan 5-6: The Proud Boys and other far-right groups are expected to participate in protests on Tuesday and Wednesday in support of President Trump's false claims that he won the November election. About 340 Army National Guard troops are expected to be deployed to help District of Columbia police keep order. 2021 Wed Jan 6: Hours before the riot, Trump urged a crowd to 'go wild' at the Capitol to get lawmakers to overturn the election result; Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani called for 'trial by combat' to settle allegations of election fraud, which courts and state election officials from both parties have rejected as false. 2021 Wed Jan 6: Violent pro-Trump terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol Building and tried to derail the process of certifying President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. They ransacked offices, stole artifacts, broke onto the Senate floor, and sent lawmakers fleeing. "One of the most heartbreaking days in modern American history." ~~~ Kansas City Star editorial board "What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States." ~~~ Sen. Mitt Romney [R-UT] details of the January 6th U.S. Capitol Riot and subsequent events are on their own page 2021 Jan 6-7: Congress reconvened Wednesday night and certified President-elect Joe Biden's election victory early Thursday. The vote count is difficult to verify, but partial data shows that 147 GOP Representatives voted to reject the results of the election and the Senate vote was 91-8. Afterward, President Trump publicly acknowledged that he would leave office on Inauguration Day in a 'peaceful transfer of power'. 2021 Thu Jan 7: Social media giant Facebook, Inc. announced that it was extending indefinitely a temporary block on President Trump's Facebook & Instagram accounts. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Trump's encouragement of a mob before it stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday showed that the risks of letting Trump continue to use the company's platforms were 'simply too great', so it was 'extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete'. Twitter temporarily locked Trump's account there and threatened 'permanent suspension', saying Trump had committed 'severe' violations of the company's civil integrity policy. Facebook and its photo-sharing service, Instagram, then suspended Trump from posting over 24 hours starting Wednesday evening, and the tech giant joined Twitter and YouTube in taking down the president’s earlier video. Facebook also said it would remove harmful content posted by other users promoting similar riots at the U.S. Capitol before extending the suspension indefinitely a day later. 2021 Thu Jan 7: Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin, the top federal prosecutor in Washington, DC, declined to rule out charging President Trump with inciting a riot at the Capitol, saying that the Justice Department was weighing criminal charges against anyone who played a role in the storming of the Capitol. 2021 Fri Jan 8: New charges were brought against individuals involved in Wednesday's deadly pro-Trump riot at the Capitol building. Richard Barnett, the man photographed with his foot up on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, was arrested Friday on charges of 'entering and remaining on restricted grounds' and 'violent entry and theft of public property'. Meanwhile, West Virginia state representative Derrick Evans was charged after he recorded a video of himself storming the Capitol. The Department of Justice said 13 people were charged in federal court over the riot, while another 40 people were charged in Superior Court. 2021 Fri Jan 8: Wall Street surged in the first week of the year despite concerns about Wednesday's siege at the Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump terrorists. The Dow finished the week at $30,945.17, up by 1.6 percent; the S&P 500 posted four straight days of gains to finish the week at $3,795.02, up 1.8 percent; the tech-heavy NASDAQ rose to $13,063.58, up by 2.4 percent. 2021 late Friday Jan 8: Twitter permanently suspended President Trump's account, citing 'the risk of further incitement of violence'; Trump's account has already been wiped from the site. 2021 Sat Jan 9: Jacob Anthony Chansley, who calls himself QAnon Shaman, is in custody on charges for violent entry and disorderly conduct; he is allegedly the man seen wearing horns, a bearskin headdress, and face paint inside the Capitol. Police also arrested and charged Adam Johnson, the man photographed carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern out of the House chamber. Meanwhile, Derrick Evans, the West Virginia state lawmaker who is facing federal charges for entering the Capitol, resigned from office. 2021 Sun Jan 10: Following Wednesday's violent siege of the Capitol, payment-processing company Stripe will no longer process payments for President Trump's campaign. 2021 Sun Jan 10: Plan showing up all over social media is for attacks on Sunday January 17th at all 50 state capitols, then all terrorists to reconvene in D.C. on the 20th - of course, 50 governors and the F.B.I. are watching carefully. 2021 Sun Jan 10: The F.B.I. said that two men photographed carrying plastic hand restraints during 'the siege' have been arrested, one a 30-year-old Nashville man and the other a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel living in Texas. Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser called for Homeland Security to impose heightened security measures starting Monday, instead of on January 19th, in preparation for President-elect Joe Biden's January 20th inauguration. 2021 Mon Jan 11:    House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment accusing President Trump of inciting an insurrection aiming to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden. "We now have the votes to impeach," said Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), one of the representatives who introduced the impeachment article. 2021 Mon Jan 11: State leaders increased security as the F.B.I. warned of possible armed protests at all 50 state capitols ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee activated hundreds of National Guard troops to back up state police and defend security fencing. Georgia authorities deployed a state patrol SWAT team. In Idaho, officials locked the doors to the House and Senate chambers, with two Idaho state troopers guarding each entrance. 2021 Mon Jan 11: Stock index futures dipped early on Monday, signaling a lower open after the three main U.S. indexes finished last week at record highs based on vaccine optimism and anticipation of more coronavirus stimulus. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down by 0.6 percent several hours before the opening bell; those of the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ fell by 0.5 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively. However, the Dow finished the day higher by $56.84 at $31,097.97; the S&P 500 finished the day higher by $20.89 at $3,824.68; and the NASDAQ finished the day higher by $134.50 at $13,201.98. 2021 Tue Jan 12:    Coronavirus deaths in the United States reached another record high, with a stunning 4,327 people dying in a single day. 2021 Tue Jan 12: House Democrats introduced a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to declare Trump unfit and remove him from office; Democrats were hoping for a unanimous vote, but most Republicans voted against; the final tally was 220-204. 2021 Wed Jan 13 about 1pm EST:    President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for the second time; the charge is that he "threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a co-equal branch of Government", doing so in a way that rendered him "a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution" if he were allowed to complete his term. Trial in the Senate was an unknown at this point. 2021 Wed Jan 13: Airbnb announced cancellation of reservations in the D.C. area for the week of the inauguration after finding accounts that were tied to the Capitol riot. 2021 Thu Jan 14: Online chatter about attacking state capitols and a repeat of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol continued unabated. 2021 Thu Jan 14: A retired Pennsylvania firefighter, 55-year-old Robert Sanford, has been arrested and accused of throwing a fire extinguisher that hit three police officers during last week's attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump terrorists; he was charged with four counts, including disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and assaulting a police officer. (The allegations were not related to the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who reportedly was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher.) 2021 Tue Jan 19: U.S. authorities arrested an apparent leader of the far-right Oath Keeper extremist militia group on charges of plotting to storm the U.S. Capitol prior to the January 6 attack by a mob of pro-Trump terrorists. Authorities accused Thomas Edward Caldwell, 65, of Clarke County, Virginia of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote count confirming President-elect Joe Biden's win over President Trump; Caldwell faces four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States; according to a charging affidavit, Caldwell helped organize a group of eight to 10 people, including self-styled Ohio militia members that were captured on Sunday. The defendants allegedly communicated as they pushed into the Capitol from opposite sides and headed a hunt for lawmakers to place under 'citizen's arrest'. In a separate event, former Houston police officer Tam Pham was charged with two federal misdemeanor crimes linked to the U.S. Capitol riot; the charges are entering a restricted building and engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct on government property; he was arrested & released on January 22nd. 2021 Tue Jan 19:    President Trump said in a videotaped 'farewell address' released late Tuesday that "the movement we started is only just beginning". Trump did not mention President-elect Joe Biden by name, but he said that he was preparing to "hand power over to a new administration at noon Wednesday", and extended his "best wishes". Trump also touted his economic and foreign policy record, and criticized the deadly January 6th attack against the U.S. Capitol that led the House to impeach him on the charge of inciting an insurrection. "Political violence is an attack on everything [that] we cherish as Americans," Trump said. "It can never be tolerated." Trump also called for Americans to set aside political rancor. 2021 Wed Jan 20: Inauguration of Emperor Trump's replacement Joe Biden, along with Vice President Kamala Harris. 2021 Thu Jan 21:    President Biden signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at fighting coronavirus infections, and promised a 'full-scale wartime effort' against the pandemic; the orders called for requiring masks on interstate planes, trains, and buses, and for quarantining international travelers entering the country. "History is going to measure whether we are up to the task," Biden said. The new administration released its 200-page "National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness" in a bid to intensify a nationwide campaign against COVID-19. 2021 Mon Jan 25: Dominion Voting Systems filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani accusing him of defamation, saying that he falsely implicated the company in bogus election fraud claims; Dominion said that the 'Big Lie' that Giuliani used to try to reverse Trump's election loss to President Biden damaged Dominion's business and its reputation and that Giuliani's claims resulted in death threats against Dominion employees - Dominion is seeking more than $1.3 billion in damages. Just before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, Giuliani told Trump supporters that "crooked Dominion machines" were used to steal the election. the Senate's impeachment show-trial of former President Donald Trump on February 8th. 2021 Feb 16: President Biden spoke at a C.N.N. town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he addressed some of our nation’s most pressing concerns - in particular, the economic and health effects of COVID-19. 2021 Thursday Feb 19: N.A.S.A. landed its Perseverance rover on Mars, on a mission to determine whether Mars ever supported life; the new $2.7 billion robotic explorer has sophisticated cameras and lasers that can analyze the chemical components of rocks, as well as ground-penetrating radar capable of identifying fossilized microbial life from an era when Mars had plentiful water. 2021 Feb 25-28:    Thousands of mask-less conservatives flocked to Orlando, Florida for the 4-day Conserv-ative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where they - among other things - worshipped a shiny golden idol of Donald Trump. Keynote speaker Trump delivered a speech rant that was a 'flat declaration that he plans to continue to dominate Republican politics rather than attempt to become a semi-retired statesman'. "We will take back the House, we will win the Senate, and then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House." - 'Trump’s strategy for returning to power is already clear: The former President is positioning himself and his audience as the only true Americans.' 2021 March 4: QAnon worshippers had to come up with another fantasy for loser TrumpTrump to illegally seize power, and that magical day is Thursday March 4th, based on the ridiculous fairy tale that the last legitimate U.S. President was U.S. Grant {don't ask!}. 2021 Sunday March 7: Historic and controversial interview by Oprah Winfrey at her home in California with Britain's Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle (the Duke & Duchess of Sussex); broadcast in U.K. on Monday evening; 17.1 million people watched, which set several audience records.       interview entry at Wikipedia • not yet available on DVD or YouTube 2021 March 11: President Biden addressed the nation to mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic  —  watch video [24:01] online at YouTube 2021 March 23: A dust storm caused the gigantic container ship Evergreen Given to run aground and veer sideways in the Suez Canal, immediately blocking hundreds of northbound and southbound vessels; the remote location and other factors led officials to predict that the ship would likely halt use of the critical canal for several weeks.    2021 March 25: President Biden's first official press conference; so-called journalists barely asked questions, TV pundits and others complained that the event was boring. 2021 March 29: The gigantic container ship Evergreen Given was freed after it had run aground, blocking the Suez Canal for six days and resulting in a traffic jam of more than 400 vessels. 2021 April 9: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh [1921-2021], the husband of Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II since 1947, died at age 99. 2021 Sunday April 11: Proud Boys and other white supremacists organized for weeks to spark a national 'White Lives Matter' day of action, but in city after city across America, the result was mostly the same: almost no one showed up. 2021 April 13: Egypt seized the container ship Ever Given that had been wedged across the Suez Canal, forcing a weeklong shutdown of the vital waterway. Egyptian authorities demanded that the ship's Japanese owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd., pay at least $900 million to cover the damage to the canal, the rescue operation, and lost business. The seizure of the vessel came after the manager of the waterway obtained an order from an Egyptian court after the shipping company failed to pay. 2021 April 14: Shares of cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase [est. 2012] surged on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on their first day as a publicly traded company, rising from $381 to as high as $429.54 within minutes to reach a valuation of nearly $100 billion; the stock later eased back a bit, but remained far above its reference price of $250. The event was widely seen as a watershed moment in the mainstream acceptance of digital currency. 2021 April 18: Bitcoin prices plunged over the weekend, falling as much as 19.5 percent from last week's record high above $64,800. Bitcoin dropped as low as $52,148.98 early Sunday before climbing back above $55,700. Other cryptocurrencies, including ether and dogecoin, also fell sharply. Ether, the second biggest digital currency by market value, fell by as much as 18 percent on Sunday after it, too, reached record highs last week. The weekend's slump followed an unverified report via Twitter that the Treasury Department was preparing to crack down on money laundering using cryptocurrency. 2021 April 26: The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the population of the United States on 1 April 2020 was 331,449,281; the country posted the slowest decade of growth since the Great Depression (also possibly due to undercount/resistence promoted by the Republican Party). 2021 April 27:    With the coronavirus surge devastating India - 3,645 people died there in one day, and there were 379,257 new infections, a global record - the U.S. government is officially urging all U.S. citizens to get out of India immediately, and not to travel there. 2021 April 28: President Biden gave his first State of The Union address to a joint session of Congress; he touted his administration's accomplishments in his first 100 days in office, telling lawmakers that America is "on the move again" after braving "pandemic and pain," and "insurrection and autocracy"; he used his first address to unveil his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, which calls for increasing spending to provide family leave, child care, health care, preschool, and college education for millions of people, and paying for it largely by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans. "We have to prove democracy works," Biden said. 2021 Friday April 30: The Marion County (Oregon) District Attorney announced that State Rep. Mike Nearman (R), one of the most conservative members of the Oregon Legislature, will face criminal charges for 'unlawfully and knowingly' opening the door of the Oregon Capitol in Salem for rioters gathered to protest COVID-19 safety measures on December 21 'with intent to obtain a benefit or to harm another'. The mob of far-right protesters breached the Oregon Capitol in Salem while the House was in session because Nearman let them in, according to surveillance video showing Nearman exiting the Capitol through a side door; two protesters rushed in and waved in fellow demonstrators, and Nearman 'promptly walked around the building and entered on the opposite side'. State and Salem police arrived and managed to push out the rioters, who tried to fight their way back in, eventually forcing back police with bear mace. 2021 May 3: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, Inc., and his wife Melinda announced that they are divorcing after 27 years of marriage; Bill Gates long served as the software giant's CEO, and still owns about 1.4 percent of the company's shares, a stake worth more than $26 billion. 2021 May 3: The cryptocurrency frenzy continued as ether, the cryptocoin linked to the ethereum blockchain, jumped to a record high before pulling back sharply; ether surpassed $3,000 for the first time, then rose as high as $3,457.64 on the bitstamp exchange before falling by about 6 percent to $3,244. The cryptocurrency was still up by about 340 percent in 2021 thanks to a boost coming from enthusiasm for bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed as investors, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, buy it, and it gains acceptance as a form of payment. The frenzy has also driven up joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin by 9,000 percent this year. 2021 May 5: Facebook's Oversight Board announced that it has decided to uphold the platform's suspension of Trump. 2021 May 6:    Twitter suspended an account that was relaying posts from former President Donald Trump's new weblog, on the grounds that it violated the company's rules against sidestepping its bans. Facebook is still considering whether to some day lift its ban of Trump, but Twitter made Trump's suspension permanent in the days after the January 6th Capitol riot. The new Trump account was {at}DJTDesk, short for his new 'From The Desk of Donald J. Trump' web page. 2021 Friday May 7: Colonial Pipeline Company's computer systems were hacked by a Russia-based ransomware attack; pipeline & refinery operations were shut down for six days, causing widespread fuel shortages on the East Coast. The company quickly paid the demanded $4.4M bitcoin ransom in order to restore service; the Biden administration's ransomware task force managed to recover $2.3M and shut down the cybercriminal gang's servers. 2021 Wed May 19: Bitcoin's price plunged by as much as 30 percent as its selloff picked up speed; the leading cryptocurrency went on a tear earlier in the year, peaking at $64,829 in mid-April as it gained acceptance as an investment and more companies started accepting it as a form of payment; it fell as low as $30,202 before closing at $38,802, a 10 percent drop on the day. 2021 May 20: The 11-day Israel-Gaza battle ended by cease-fire; nobody won, but 230 dead Palestinians and 12 dead Israelis clearly lost. 2021 Sunday May 23: The bitcoin selloff resumed, with the volatile cryptocurrency dropping by 13 percent; ether, the cryptocurrency linked to the ethereum blockchain network, fell by 17 percent. Bitcoin came under renewed pressure during the prior week after Tesla CEO and longtime cryptocurrency booster Elon Musk posted a series of tweets in which he said that the electric-car company was reversing plans to accept bitcoin as payment. 2021 Sat-Sun May 29-30: Hackers hit Brazilian company J.B.S. SA, the world’s largest meat processor, in another ransomware cyberattack on a crucial supply chain, hitting the meat processing industry as it continues to strain against supply chain upheavals caused by the coronavirus pandemic; the company said that it detected the intrusion on its computer networks in North America and Australia on Sunday, but that its backup servers were not affected; they quickly began working with an outside cybersecurity firm to restore its systems. Hackers believed to be from Russia forced J.B.S. to shut down nine U.S. beef plants, which provide nearly a quarter of the American supply; one of Canada's biggest beef plants also shut down. Chicken plants operated by Pilgrim's Pride, a J.B.S. subsidiary, also were affected. 2021 May: 98.9% of 107,000+ COVID-related U.S. hospitalizations in May involved unvaccinated patients; 99.2% of 18,000+ COVID-related U.S. deaths in May were among the unvaccinated. 2021 Wed June 2: Brazilian meat producer J.B.S., SA said that most of its plants were back up and running after being shut down by a ransomware cyberattack, but that the hack continued to slow distribution, pushing up wholesale meat prices. The White House said that the cyberattack appeared to be the work of a criminal group likely based in Russia, a matter that President Biden reportedly plans to bring up during his June 16 summit meeting in Geneva with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 2021 June 4:    Former President Donald Trump's short-lived weblog "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," which he launched in May to share statements with supporters, has been permanently shut down; a senior aide confirmed that the blog "will not be returning". 2021 June 4:    Facebook suspended former President Donald Trump for 2 years in response to Oversight Board ruling (ending in January 2023). 2021 June 4: National Gun Violence Awareness Day is the first Friday in June; so far this year, 18,518 Americans have been killed by a gun, including 10,230 suicides; another 15,775 people have been wounded; 639 children and teens under age 18 have been killed by guns, and another 1,571 have been wounded. There have been 244 mass shootings in these five months (150 days), resulting in 275 deaths and 1,005 injuries. 2021 Wed June 9: J.B.S. SA announced that it paid $11 million in ransom to hackers late last week to ensure that none of the company's data was stolen; the decision came after consultations with the Brazilian company's tech team and outside cybersecurity experts. "It was very painful to pay the criminals, but we did the right thing for our customers," said J.B.S. USA CEO Andre Nogueira. 2021 Monday June 14:    The U.S. coronavirus death toll surpassed 600,000 Americans, reaching the tragic milestone even as infection and death rates fall, and the economy reopens; the U.S. total amounts to about 15 percent of COVID-19 deaths worldwide. 2021 Tuesday June 15:    California officially reopened, marking a significant step in the recovery from the pandemic by lifting business-capacity limits and most other COVID-19 restrictions; the state celebrated the milestone with state-subsidized vacation giveaways and $15 million in vaccine lottery prizes; many restrictions had already been relaxed, and some will not fully phase out until fall. The pandemic has killed more than 63,000 people in the state and infected 3.8 million; two attempts to dial back restrictions before widespread vaccinations ended with infection surges. California historically generates 14.5 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. 2021 Tuesday June 15:    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the state would end most restrictions on businesses and gatherings that were imposed to fight the spread of COVID-19; the changes took effect immediately, lifting the pandemic restrictions as it reached its goal of giving 70 percent of adults at least one dose of a vaccine. 2021 June 18: The U.S. Mint announced the first year of the American Women Quarters™ Program, the first coins are to be produced in 2022; the five women chosen are: Wilma Mankiller [1945-2010], the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation; Adelina Otero-Warren [1881-1965], a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement; Anna May Wong [1905-61], the first Chinese-American film star in Hollywood; author Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]; and trailblazing astronaut Dr. Sally Ride [1951-2021]. 2021 June 24: Half of a rusty condo building in Surfside (a suburb of Miami, Florida) suddenly collapsed at around 1:25am EDT; 35 residents were rescued from the building, over 150 residents were listed as missing (presumed dead); all residents were evacuated; rescue workers worked carefully to sift thru the rubble, finding bodies as they went; the standing half of the condo building was found to be unstable, so authorities demolished it on July 5th, prior to approaching Hurricane Elsa; workers then continued searching to find bodies in the rubble of the collapse, while authorites pointed blame at each other. 2021 July 8: Global death toll from COVID-19 officially topped 4 million. 2021 Aug 24-29: Multifaceted Minds: Mensa 75th Anniversary World Gathering in Houston, Texas. 2021 Sept 14: Recall election for California Governor Gavin Newsom failed. Early returns showed that 66 percent of voters opposed the recall while 34 percent supported it, which is being termed a landslide; the full vote count could take a month to complete. Judging by the live reports from polling stations, anti-recall voters were motivated by fears of what might happen to the state should Republican front-runner Larry Elder assume the governorship, especially amid the pandemic; Elder conceded early the next day. The total cost of the recall election was estimated at $280 million; Newsom will stay in office for another year and is expected to seek reelection in 2022. 2021 Saturday Sept 18: The Demonstration, scheduled for Washington, DC and other cities, so that Proud Boys and other domestic terrorists can act dangerous for TV - the event fizzled - the largest crowds were a mere 200-300 wannabe terrorists. 2021 Oct 13: A New Shepard rocket made by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin aerospace company soared to a maximum altitude of 66 miles with four passengers on board for the 10-minute trip; passenger William Shatner, the actor best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk on "Star Trek", became the oldest person to fly to the edge of space at age 90. "In a way it's indescribable," Shatner said. "Not only is it different than what you thought, it happened so quickly. The impression I had that I never expected to have is the shooting up: There's blue sky." 2021 Oct 13: Social Security announced that C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Adjustment) increases for next year will be 5.9 percent for an average increase of $95/month; the increase represents the program's largest C.O.L.A. adjustment in 39 years. 2021 October: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 45,000 Americans were killed by guns in 2020, a level of gun deaths not seen in decades. Gun deaths increased 15% nationwide from 2019 to 2020. 'Our gun violence epidemic got worse through the pandemic': 120 Americans on average were killed by guns every single day in 2020. 2021 November: The international COP26 meeting on climate change was held in Glasgow, Scotland. 2021 November: Another tragic milestone: 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in the prior 12 months for the 1st time. 2021 November: Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621. 2021 Dec 13:    COVID-19 Omicron is confirmed in D.C. and 30 U.S. states as the variant is poised to dominate in Europe. 2021 Monday Dec 13: Gov. Andy Beshear said that there are 64 confirmed dead in Kentucky from the weekend's tornado storm, with at least 105 people unaccounted for, and that it could be weeks before a total number of fatalities - as well as the full extent of the damage - is known. 2021 Sat Dec 25: The James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion project decades in the making, launched on its mission to "peer deeper into the cosmos - and farther back in time - to open a window on the universe as it took shape soon after the Big Bang". Though only roughly the size of a tennis court, the infrared telescope is designed to detect light that was emitted 13.6 billion years ago, at the dawn of the universe - maybe up to as little as 100 million years after the Big Bang.    United States G.D.P. {gross domestic product} grew 5.7 percent in 2021, the fastest pace since 1984. {official reports May 2022} The  Year  2 0 2 2 2022 Jan 5-6: Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain began her reign 70 years ago when her father, King George VI, died on 6 February 1952; she is now the fourth-longest-reigning monarch in world history. On Saturday, the queen hosted a small reception for her Platinum Jubilee at her country estate, Sandringham; she also announced in an address that she wants Duchess Camilla of Cornwall – the wife of her son and heir, Prince Charles – to have the title of Queen Consort when Charles becomes king. The queen has met 13 American presidents and been served by 14 prime ministers. Prince Charles paid tribute to his mother on her special day, congratulating her as she marks her 70th year on the throne and expressing gratitude for the significant step to redefine royal titles.    2022 Tuesday Feb 1: U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico experienced dizziness and fatigue and checked himself into Christus St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Santa Fe; he was later transferred to U.N.M. Hospital in Albuquerque where he was found to have suffered a stroke in the cerebellum that affected his balance; he underwent decompressive surgery to ease swelling; his office said that he is stabilized and expected to make a full recovery in 4-6 weeks - the major problem for the Democrats in the Senate is that the seating count is now 49 Dems to 50 Republicans which will prevent getting any part of Biden's legislative agenda approved watch Sen. Luján & U.N.M. doctors give 2/13 stroke status update [5:47] on Twitter UPDATE Thursday March 3rd: Sen. Luján returned to work in D.C.; upon entering a committee meeting room, members and workers rose to give him a standing ovation. 2022 Feb 2-3: Facebook, Inc.'s parent company Meta Platforms reported weaker-than-expected earnings after the market closed on Wednesday; the prior quarter was the first ever in which Facebook lost users; Meta Platforms shares plummeted 26 percent on Thursday, erasing more than $250 billion in market value in the biggest one-day loss ever for a U.S. company. Analysts said that the painful quarter reflected tough competition from Tiktok and other rivals, while the magnitude of the stock plunge demonstrated how much mammoth tech companies have to lose if they run out of room to grow. Bloomberg noted that Mega's Thursday losses exceeded the market value of 470 of the companies in the S&P 500. 2022 Tuesday Feb 8:    "The world surpassed 400 million known coronavirus cases, just one month after reaching 300 million." – per The New York Times 2022 Feb 24: Dictator Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade several major cities in independent Ukraine; artillery and tanks killed local troops and civilians, return fire killed Russian soldiers.    2022 March 1: President Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address. 2022 March 31: The U.S. Commerce Department reported that the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, rose 6.4 percent in February compared to a year earlier - the biggest increase in 40 years! The change reflected sharply higher prices for necessities, including food and gasoline. So-called core inflation, which leaves out volatile food and energy costs, increased by 5.4 percent. The data did not cover price surges ocurring since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, sending oil and gasoline prices soaring. 2022 Friday April 1:   Cannabis prohibition in New Mexico ended as state-regulated retail sale of marijuana began, joining 17 other states that have legalized recreational marijuana; the first day of legal recreational cannabis sales in New Mexico surpassed $2 million; sales over the first weekend were $5.2 million. 2022 April 7: The U.S. Senate officially confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson (age 51) as the first Afro-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States; all 50 Democrats were joined by three Republicans voting in favor; 47 Republicans voted in lockstep against her nomination. 2022 Friday April 29:    Difficult to pin down due to reporting inconsistencies, but the nation hit another tragic milestone: more than one million people in the U.S. have died of the covid-19 Trumpvirus. How? Why? While more than three-quarters of Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, less than one-third have received a booster. 2022 May 1:   New Mexico collected $2.4 million in cannabis taxes for the first month of legalized sales. 2022 May 10: The national average price for regular gasoline soared to new a record high at $4.37 a gallon, according to A.A.A. Gas prices rose above $4 a gallon in all 50 U.S. states for the first time ever; 5 states averaged more than $5 a gallon, and California hit a record average of $6.02.    2022 May 22: The national average price for diesel fuel stood at $5.56 a gallon, just shy of the record of $5.58 set the prior week, according to A.A.A. 2022 May 23: New York City removed its last public street pay phone. {OMG, where will Superman change into his costume now?} 2022 May 25, the 145th day of the year: There have now been at least 198 mass shootings this year alone. Let that sink in for a moment: There have been more mass killings due to gun violence than there have been days in 2022. 2022 June 2: Queen Elizabeth II, age 96, began the 4-day Platinum Jubilee holiday celebrating her 70-year reign by appearing with family on a balcony of Buckingham Palace in London.    2022 June 2: Turkey is officially rebranding itself as 'Republic of Türkiye' from now on; the new name is intended to better represent the country’s 'culture, civilization, and values', per President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – and at least some reasoning behind the rebrand is the confusion with the North American bird. 2022 June 5: The 4-day Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee holiday celebrating her 70-year reign ended with another orchestrated balcony appearance, many videos, and a rock music concert. watch "God Save The Queen" [3:10] online at YouTube watch "Ma’amalade sandwich Your Majesty?" video with Paddington Bear [2:28] online at YouTube 2022 Tuesday June 7: Seven states held primaries on the busiest Election Day until November: California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota. 2022 Thu June 9 8pm ET: January 6th Select Committee First Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack    "January 6th Committee Holds Public Hearing On 2021 Capitol Attack" [NBC News 9 June 2022] live coverage as streamed June 9; verbatim 8pmET hearing broadcast starts at 31:00 NBC News people; nine Select Committee members, including Cong. Bennie Thompson [Dem MS-02], Cong. Liz Cheney [GOP WY], Cong. Zoe Lofgren [Dem CA-19] & Cong. Adam Schiff [Dem CA-28]; live testimony by Capitol Police officer Carolyn Edwards and embedded documentary film-maker Nick Quested; featuring Lawrence O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Ari Melber, Garrett Haake, Chris Hayes, Joy-Ann Reid, Michael Steele, Carol Leonnig, Claire McCaskill, Harry Dunn, House Minority Leader Cong. Kevin McCarthy [GOP CA-23]; with archive footage of Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Mike Pence, former A.G. William 'Bill' Barr, Gen. Mark A. Milley, Jason Miller, Alex Cannon, Cong. Debbie Lesko [GOP AZ-08], Donald Trump first hearing credits at IMDb • watch full June 9 broadcast [2:39:30] online at YouTube 2022 Sun June 12: "Bipartisan Framework On Gun Safety" initial proposal announced by U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich [Dem-NM], as a member of the bipartisan group of senators that negotiated the legislative package for reducing gun violence. Sen. Heinrich was interviewed on the matter next day on NBC News "Meet The Press NOW" [7:05]. 2022 Mon June 13 10am ET: January 6th Select Committee Second Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack 2022 Wed June 15: Microsoft, Inc. officially shut down the Internet Explorer browser after nearly 30 years; most Windows 10 versions will stop supporting the maligned browser. 2022 Thu June 16 1pm ET: January 6th Select Committee Third Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack 2022 Tue June 21 1pm ET: January 6th Select Committee Fourth Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack 2022 Thu June 23 1pm ET: January 6th Select Committee Fifth Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack      2022 Friday June 24: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a bombshell ruling officially eliminating the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, undoing nearly 50 years of precedent; in the landmark "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organi-zation" decision, the fascist bloc of SCOTUS ruled that abortion is not a constitu-tional right and that the 1973 "Roe v. Wade" ruling and the 1992 "Planned Parent-hood v. Casey" ruling guaranteeing the right to choose one's medical treatment are overturned. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Roberts. "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," Alito wrote. "The Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade and took away freedom from millions of women to control their own bodies. It’s an absolutely terrifying day for so many of us! Our worst nightmare is coming true." — Kathy Jennings, 2022 Democratic candidate for Delaware Attorney General "While I am heartbroken for women across the country today, here in New Mexico, your right to have a safe abortion remains intact, thanks to forward-thinking legislation passed in 2021." — Katy Duhigg, NM Senate District 10 2022 Tue June 28 1pm ET: January 6th Select Committee Sixth Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack 2022 July 6-10: U.S. Mensa Annual Gathering #76: Sparks of Genius at the Nugget Casino Resort in Reno-Sparks, Nevada 2022 Tue July 12 1pm ET: January 6th Select Committee Seventh Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack 2022 Thu July 21 8pm ET: January 6th Select Committee Eighth Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack 2022 July: The foundation created to plan the U.S. 250th anniversary commemorations in July 2026 was quickly accused of discrimination. 2022 Monday Aug 8:    F.B.I. agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and seized numerous classified and top-secret papers among 10,000 documents that should have been returned to the National Archives. 2022 Tuesday Aug 16: President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law! - the landmark legislation ensures that the massive climate and healthcare stimulus package goes forward. 2022 Tuesday Aug 23: the New York state primary election 2022 Sept 1: In a rare prime-time address, President Biden delivered a speech on "The Battle for The Soul of The Nation" at Independence Hall in Philadelphia; various newspeople deemed it 'the most important speech of his presidency' • watch full C-SPAN broadcast [24:17] online at YouTube 2022 Sept 8: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96 after a reign of 70 years and 7 months; she is succeeded by her son King Charles III, age 73. 2022 Sunday Sept 11: There are 12 major labor unions that represent nearly 60,000 workers at almost every level of the nationwide rail network, which work with their respective companies to keep basically all freight and passenger rail moving around the country; about 30% of the nation's freight moves by rail. Two of the most powerful railroad labor unions – the ones representing engineers and conductors – are still at loggerheads with their respective managements over a variety of work conditions, chiefly lack of sick days and attendance policies that penalize workers for taking time off. The ten other unions have reached tentative agreements with management, but are expected to strike all the same in solidarity with the two unions still negotiating. 2022 Sept 18: President Biden made an apparently off-the-cuff remark on “60 Minutes”, saying "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over." Major furor followed, of course, but the facts of the matter are that new COVID-19 infections are down to just over 65,000 per day and that COVID-19 deaths are down to around 400 per day. 2022 Tuesday September 20: the former president and Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. were sued on charges of business fraud by the New York Attorney General; the civil suit alleges that the Trump family flagrantly manipulated property valuations to deceive lenders, insurance brokers, and tax authorities. (This was 608 days after Donald Trump left office as U.S. President.) 2022 Sept 30: Biden-appointee Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was formally sworn in; she is the first Afro-American woman on the high court. 2022 Oct 6:   President Biden pardoned all people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law, and ordered a review of the classification of the drug as a Schedule 1 substance; the pardons will clear the convictions of some 6,500 people from 1992 to 2021. 2022 Oct 11: Absentee voting starts in New Mexico. 2022 Thu Oct 14: January 6th Select Committee Ninth Public Hearing On The 2021 Capitol Attack at 1pm 2022 Oct 26: McDonald's, Inc announced that its seasonal barbecue-flavored pork McRib sandwich will return to the U.S. restaurant chain's menus from Monday October 31 to November 20, but dubbed the event the 'Farewell Tour', hinting that this may be the last time ever. Local McDonalds stores were selling McRib early from the prior Wednesday. 2022 Oct 27: The Powerball jackpot top prize grew to an estimated $800M: No one has matched all six numbers and won the jackpot since Wednesday August 3 (12 full weeks). 2022 late Thursday Oct 27: Elon Musk closed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, Inc. [est. 2006], ending months of drama and legal fighting; internal and external havoc followed for several days. 2022 Oct 28: ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. oil company, said it raked in nearly $20 billion in profits in Q3; and Chevron, the country’s #2 oil company, reported quarterly profits of $11.2 billion - its second-best quarter on record. 2022 Nov 2: President Biden spoke at Union Station, near the U.S. Capitol, and warned 'We The People' that democracy is under attack. watch full prime-time "P.B.S. NewsHour" broadcast [21:35] online at YouTube • read full text online at The New York Times website 2022 Friday Nov 4: New owner Elon Musk laid off half of Twitter's staff. Last week, Lyft said that it would cut 13 percent of its employees, or about 650 of its 5,000 workers. Stripe, a payment processing platform, said that it would cut 14 percent of its employees, roughly 1,100 jobs. Snap, Robinhood, and Coinbase are among other companies that have announced job cuts this year. 2022 Sunday Nov 6: Delegates from nearly 200 countries attend week-long U.N. climate summit COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. 2022 Monday Nov 7: Meta/Facebook announced plans to lay off employees this Friday; Meta had 87,314 employees at the end of September. 2022 Monday Nov 7: The record-setting gigantic Power Ball game was delayed due to technical problems; the estimated grand prize of $2.04 billion was won on one ticket sold in California, with a lump sum cash value option of around $997.6 million. 2022 Nov 8: Critical national & local U.S. midterm elections - many races were too close to call and the counting of absentee ballots is expected to take several days; runoff election for U.S. Senate in Georgia; news outlets are predicting that Democrats keep the Senate but lose the House on thin margin to Republicans. 2022 Nov 10: Meta/Facebook announced that the sudden layoffs would amount to 13% of their workers, more than 11,000 employees across numerous departments. 2022 Thursday Nov 10: U.S. stocks soared after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices rose less than expected in October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index rose 3.7 percent ($1203 to $33,715); the S&P 500 Index jumped 5.5 percent (up $208 to $3,956), its best day since April 2020; and the tech-heavy NASDAQ shot up by 7.3 percent (up $761 to $11,114). The key B.L.S. inflation gauge showed that prices increased by 7.7 percent in October compared to a year earlier, a significant drop from 8.2 percent in September. 2022 Nov 11: President Biden addressed the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Egypt. 2022 Friday Nov 11: Lawyers for former President Trump filed a federal lawsuit to try and void a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 seeking personal testimony and documents from the former president related to the events of that day; the suit argues that the committee's subpoena was invalid because the former president had 'absolute testimonial immunity' from the committee. 2022 Saturday morning Nov 12: The member counts for the 118th Congress are uncertain because ballots are still being counted. The U.S. Senate will likely be 48 Democrat seats & 2 independent seats and 50 Republican seats - with Arizona & Nevada still counting and Georgia set for a runoff election on December 6th. The U.S. House of Representatives is projected to be 209 Democrats (plus 4 Delegates), 215 Republicans (plus 2 Delegates), with 2 vacant seats; there are 23 seats still counting ballots, half of them in CA & NV. 2022 late Saturday Nov 12: Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona was named victor over Trump-endorsed Blake Masters 51.8% to 46.1% in Arizona and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto beat GOP candidate Adam Laxalt 48.7 to 48.2 in Nevada, which locked the U.S. Senate in Democratic control in the 118th Congress starting in January 2023. 2022 Monday Nov 14: President Biden's first in-person meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since Biden took office. 2022 Nov 14:    Former President Trump is scheduled to testify under oath to the House Jan. 6th Committee but will he? His lawyers accepted the subpoena paperwork on October 27th. 2022 Nov 15 The United Nations declared this to be the day when the world population reached 8 billion, marking a 'milestone in human development' - the figure means that one billion people were added to the population in just 12 years. "This unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene, and medicine. It is also the result of high and persistent levels of fertility in some countries." Eight countries, including Nigeria, Tanzania, and Pakistan, are projected to account for more than half of the future population increase by 2050. Russian rockets from Ukriane landed on two villages across the border in Poland; N.A.T.O. got all upset, but President Biden says that the missiles were not launched in Russia and may just be accidental mis-directions.    Wannabe dictator Donald Trump is so out of touch with reality that he announced that he will run for President in 2024 in a rambling hour-long speech from his Mar-a-Lago resort; all three broadcast TV networks opted not to show Trump’s speech live, while Fox News and C.N.N. carried much of the Trump speech but not all of it. Next day, C.N.N. reported on the top twenty lies from that speech. 2022 Nov 16: After years of delays, N.A.S.A.’s Space Launch System rocket lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 1:47am Eastern time. The 25-day 1.2-million-mile Artemis I mission is a test flight that will send its unmanned Orion crew capsule to the moon and back.       2022 Nov 16: Starbucks Coffee workers, seeking better pay and conditions, staged walkouts at more than 100 U.S. stores in 25 states, according to organizer Starbucks Workers United; the labor action is happening on Starbucks' annual Red Cup Day, a busy day when the coffee chain gives free reusable cups to customers who buy special holiday drinks; this is their biggest labor action since the start last year of a campaign to unionize Starbucks workers. Starbucks has more than 9,000 company-owned U.S. outlets and the corporation has opposed the effort to unionize its employees, saying it's 'best for everyone' when it deals directly with its workers. 2022 4:45am Sat Dec 3:    Former President Trump tweeted on his UntruthSocial platform that we should 'terminate' the U.S. Constitution, and after the usual uproar from both sides, denied that he ever said such a thing. Here is a of his tweet. 2022 Dec 6: Runoff election for U.S. Senator from Georgia was won by incumbent Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock 51.4% to the carpetbagger GOP candidate at 48.6%, making the U.S. Senate a comfy 51 seats for Democrats vs. 49 for Republicans. 2022 Dec 13: President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law at the White House. 2022 December: Less than half of Americans have gotten a flu shot; there already have been 15 million cases of the flu, 150,000 people have gotten it bad enough that they had to be hospitalized, and a whopping 9,300 people have died! . . . meanwhile, keep an eye on these planned/expected events 2022 December: Three U.S. railroad labor unions have authorized strike actions for December if negotiations with the railroads break down. 2022 Mon Dec 19: The House January 6th Committee will approve criminal referrals in its final public hearing. 2022 Wed Dec 21: The House January 6th Committee will issue its final report, with 'some form of public presentation'. 2023 January: Possible increase in Social Security benefits of 8.7% - in my case that would be $120/month! 2024 Nov: state and local elections in USA 2023 April: My Social Security monthly direct deposit #200! 2023 May 6: Coronations of Britain's King Charles III and queen consort Camilla. 2024 June: major national and local primary elections in USA 2024 Nov 4: national and local elections in USA 2026 July: Commemoration events for the 250th anniversary of the United States. 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