something very unfortunate happened some time after mid-june, 2020 that affected posts dated from about june 20,2020 to about july 30, 2020 and there was substantive data loss across the blogger platform, and in two of my email archives for posts dating to that period. it might not have been a singular event, but it was worse over that period.

i did not detect any data loss when i was "catching up" over august, 2020.

somebody then tried to cancel my account in nov, 2020 - which is when i made the backup closest to the date, by which time the damage had been done.

so, that's the time window i'm look at for some kind of destructive action, presumably by some police agency - fall, 2020.