😕 Unrepresentative vox pops rather than scrutiny of candidates ☹ Focus on the 'horse race' rather than policy 👉🏼 Journalists are failing in their essential democratic role www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@hanseric.bsky.social: "LFP recycling line in Guangzhou🇨🇳. Two years ago LFP made up 20% of their feedstock. Today it’s 60%. In China, LFP recyclability isn’t a debate — it’s the reality recyclers operate in." #alwaysbecharging #battchat www.linkedin.com/posts/hanser...

Extremely interesting: even Berlin and Stuttgart together have less public plugs than Amsterdam today #alwaysbecharging #electrive #stuttgart presenting data!

How many journalists have sat with Richard Tice to talk about fossil fuel versus climate?

When politicians reject measured facts and basic physics in favor of the propaganda narrative of the fossil fuel lobby, they are throwing the people and their home land under the bus.

It's the oil Party.

A small sample of Tice's approach to facts, evidence, reason, etc...

A clear & present danger

Not just backing down on sanctions but colluding with those who always busted the sanctions Looks like we're seeing the people of Ukraine sacrificed to save Keir Starmer's skin www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Fire Point co-owner and chief designer Denys Shtilerman said Ukraine could block Russia’s oil exports in the Baltic and Black seas within one day by declaring a naval blockade and warning tankers to change course within 15 minutes or face attack. #Ukraine

Huge thanks to everyone at the @FTMag for sending me to Santa Marta to cover the first international conference on shifting away from fossil fuels. The event showed the vast and messy complexity of the task - and the rising determination to achieve it as.ft.com/r/79eab047-c...

generates "~1.78 TWh annually" no notes #alwaysbecharging 🌞🌞🌞

I believe this is genuine I hope it can survive the machinations of the Labour machine

Guardian does a good job tracking the movements, but it's from various authors and various Hungarian sources. Vsquare .org is one of the most well known sources for anti-Fidesz research in English. vsquare.org/goulash-with... bsky.app/profile/gill...

Thanks, Gillian. Who can we follow — in English — that is tracking this?

Europe needs a simple legal framework that recognises OSNMA-certified 'Spoofing Logs' as admissible evidence in property damage claims. Citizens can then claim damages (from frozen Russian assets) when Russia interferes. www.esa.int/Applications....

🧵on Report's findings on locals & future: 128/139 MPs of deprived towns & suburbs are Labour MPs. And before last week, well over half of councilors in these areas were Labour. Now it's just 19%. Overwhelmingly voters in these places voted for Reform, with the Greens making marginal gains 1/18

So Vote Green for Rejoin.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

The media empire built by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is swiftly unravelling following an election last month ​that abruptly ended his rule... Senior figures at some of the most prominent pro-Orban ‌outlets have been pushed out. www.reuters.com/business/med...

UK TV executives seen to have an odd relationship with pop music and with the Eurovision song contest. UK can do well, it came 2nd a few years ago but rock bottom this time. Spain, ​The Netherlands, ​Ireland, ​Slovenia and ​Iceland boycotted the contest over Israel's attack on Gaza.

Ex-county clerk jailed for tampering with voting machines, 10/24 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Got to stop oil money doing harm. pca.st/episode/ceb6...

"Why were Russian disinformation, government propaganda and AI-generated campaigning ineffective in Hungarian elections 2026? We should give credit to EU institutions for regulating the transparency of political advertising." globalvoices.org/2026/05/15/w...

The Canadian Climate Institute has reported that Canada will not meet either its 2030 commitment under the Paris accord to cut emissions by up to 45 per cent below 2005 levels or the long-term goal of net zero by 2050. This followed the “slackening” of policy under Carney.

Over the next 4 years, Rosatom will tow 3 or 4 floating nuclear power plants from St. Petersburg, across the Baltic Sea and further around Scandinavia. First to Murmansk, then along the Northern Sea Route to Cape Naglounyn in Chukotka. ☢️ ⚛️.

@sturdyalex.bsky.social PM Andy should move Parliament to Manchester do electoral reform rejoin (but agree not to use vote for 10 years as a courtesy) overhaul media regulation Would signify change, improve 'Westminster' culture, boost economy and stability.

The enduring problem with American journalism, described by James A Smith in 1991. “President claims moon is made of cheese. Experts are skeptical.”

Shell is lobbying EU over how green hydrogen should be. Predictable. Wants EU to backtrack.

⚡️ Plucking 'justice from the ruins of war': Council of Europe moves on Nuremberg-style Russia trial. 36 countries and the European Union have committed to supporting the Special Tribunal, and the Netherlands has carried out preparatory work to host the court in The Hague.

🇺🇦🇹🇷 Ukraine demands Turkey ban unloading of bulk carrier Panormitis with stolen Ukrainian grain, — Newsru Bulk carrier Panormitis delivered ~25,000 tons of grain stolen by Russia from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Turkish port of Iskenderun, with a market value of about $7 million.

Intriguing calculation.

Germany had 2.5 GW of operational grid-scale batteries in 2025, the largest fleet in the EU 🔋 Another 10 GW is in the pipeline. Had that capacity been online in 2025, Germany could have avoided €830 million in gas purchases and solar redispatch costs. ember-energy.org/lat...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Democrats need to move through this reawakening quickly.

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

I don't think the New York Times describing this massive corruption bluntly, as opposed to vaguely hinting at it with couched euphemisms, would change the circumstances themselves. But still. It's wildly, unambiguously corrupt. Not blurred lines; no line at all. Why so afraid to state the truth?

🙏More than 10 people are missing after missile hit a high-rise building in Kyiv. 😢 4 people are currently known died

The average household has paid over $1500 to wreck the climate and our health, isolate ourselves from the international community, and cede future leadership to China

A problem being the UK regulatory regime doesn't have any teeth.

USA you need to fix your politics

An impressive account of the impact of sanctions on the #ICC & the people involved incl their relatives by Judge Beti Hohler. Source: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/juri-committee-meeting_20260224-1500-COMMITTEE-JURI (~15:21) This makes it very clear #europe needs to […]

Polish hobby drone operators are anecdotally reporting the worst GPS conditions so far in northern Poland, adjacent to the Kaliningrad jam/spoof complexes. They lose their drones and recommend not flying for the moment. www.trojmiasto.pl/wiadomosci/K...

🔥 Nurlino, Republic of Bashkortostan. The Nurlino LPDS is on fire, which operates in the Transneft oil pipeline system and is part of the oil transportation route from the Urals and Western Siberia to the south. Part of the flows go towards Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Taman.

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

⚡️EU 'frustration' at failed defense industry ramp-up. Following an EU defense ministers meeting on May 12, the bloc's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, expressed "frustration" over the slow pace of the European Union's defense industry production, drawing a stark contrast with Ukraine's growth.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: We are gradually advancing the issue of anti-ballistic missile production in Europe. 13 countries and the office of the NATO Secretary General were represented at today's meeting. There are no victories for one person, and there is no stability for someone alone.

In an interview with the Kyiv Independent, Anastasiia Chvylova said Maria Lvova-Belova — wanted by the ICC alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin on accusations for abducting Ukrainian children — told her and others that they were Russian and urged them to study in Russia.

As you probably know, there's a lone Democrat on the FCC, Anna Gomez. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177... Gomez gets out-voted on everything, so all she can do is observe, warn, translate and behave like a sharp blogger. Here she is talking to ABC News: "The settlement did not buy you peace."

I hope Burnham orders Parliament to move to Manchester while the old palace is rebuilt in a modern way suitable for a proportional electoral system.