“Federal prosecutors said the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he felt compelled to ‘speak up’ for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen.”
“Cole said he was disillusioned by the election outcome and sympathetic to claims by President Donald Trump and allies that it had been stolen.”
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This book, "Last Boat from Tangier" by James von Leyden, published in 2020, seems nevertheless more relevant year after year. You'll know why when you follow the news.
7 years ago, I got a room full of people in Sheffield to sing the red flag, o tannenbaum and o christmas tree simultaneously, while I played with the chords in @… (they all have the same tune)
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wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
added a new hampton grease band date, a new-to-me 1971 music fest in florida, dusserah, also featuring a band called dark star. the ashes of moby grape & iron butterfly didn't show. one site says the amboy dukes, tom petty's mudcrutch, & lynyrd skynyrd played, too. https://jessejarnow.com/2020/05/…
"Converting debts into income streams for third parties is the true basis of the finance industry. It's the means by which socially useless intermediaries extract ever-mounting rents from the productive economy" -- @…
African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/flutterwave-buys-nige…
U.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year.
It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024.
Recent Layoffs:
UPS: 48,000 employees
Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
Intel: 24,000 employees
Microsoft: 15,000 employees
2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.
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Is diesel behind the US takeover of Venezuela?
Diesel is the main fuel used in road transport, mining and quarrying, and agriculture. Fuel oil is used in shipping but with the regulations of 2020 on sulphur emissions, it is closer to diesel in character and this in turn impacts on the scarcity of diesel.
The US has to import the crude oil to make diesel. Its own crude is too light
Venezuela's oil is very heavy.
psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…
President TACO to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers
Farmers nationwide have been grappling with low crop prices and challenging TARIFFS that have pushed many into bankruptcy.
Some 181 farmers filed for bankruptcy protection in the first half of the year,
a 60 percent increase from the previous year
and the highest six-month reading since 2020, according to U.S. court records.
The new assistance package is expected to particularly help soybean farm…
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
Apple iMac product page viewed by Safari 13 (2020). Apple website does not target customers of older Macs wanting to buy a new one.