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For Donald Trump, it’s always personal.
And he leaves this week feeling betrayed.
First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,”
the president wrote on his Truth Socialplatform. “They are merely a shell of their original selves.”
Then the Federal Reserve defied Trump by raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarte…

Trump’s authoritarian mindset can’t handle dissent from his appointees
Defiance from the supreme court and the Federal Reserve chair in one week ... how ever will the US president cope?

Interesting study commissioned by European Commission's DG ENER on smart and bidirectional charging of EVs.
Smart charging is already mature tech and ready for use. It is important to use time-varying energy and network prices, and for TSOs and DSOs to remove barriers to small-scale flexibility.

Study on the assessment of use cases and business models for smart and bidirectional recharging in the context of energy system integration - Publications Office of the EU
demand patterns across the European Union. As electrification progresses across private, commercial, and fleet segments, charging behaviour has become a material factor for peak demand, grid utilization, and system balancing. Within this context, smart charging (SC) and bidirectional charging (BDC) have growing relevance as demand-side flexibility and energy-system integration instruments. This study first assesses the system relevance, maturity, and deployment conditions of SC and BDC across t…

The fact that an autocratic, corrupt and in some ways fascist republican administration only leads to a relatively small lead of the democrats in the polls, is food for thought. People in the US are farther removed from European and democratic values than ever it seems.
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Who Is Favored to Win the House? Latest 2026 Congressional Ballot Polls
Track the latest Congressional ballot surveys that ask who Americans plan to vote for in the 2026 midterm election.

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

We know from polling that voters want us to be talking about preserving their rights and freedoms (No Kings)
and not just “kitchen table issues”
and that there is nothing more intrinsically American than fighting for freedom and democracy.
We also know from polling, lots and lots of polling, that voters believe that our hearts are in right place
but question our toughness, and whether we are strong enough to be able to fight and deliver for them.
So we should se…

The Importance Of Character And Virtue In The 2026 Elections
Trump has reminded the American people why it is so important to have leaders of virtue and character.......

Democrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech
making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election
is the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms.
The upcoming elections to decide the balance of power in Congress and many state legislatures
will be a major test of Trump’s appeal to voters two years after he resoundingly beat the Democratic candidate Kamala…

Trump speech lays groundwork for him to tamper with midterm results, critics warn
Democrats and advocates sound alarm at Trump rehashing false claims about 2020 election in his primetime address

The electric vans are getting better. If I had the spare money, the PV7 would be on my list. Maybe when our e-Berlingo needs replacing.
The range is pretty good and 800V means fast charging. I would also love AWD.
https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/fir

More bollocks from the out of touch #Burnham government.
I'm critical of like for like electric car replacement (we need many fewer cars) but this is just trembling before vested interests.
"The government said it needed the targets to 'remain pro-business and grounded in the real world'”.
Pray Heidi, what is your understanding of the 'real world'?
Not…

Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets
Possible cut from 80% down to as little as 50% could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions and comes amid UK heatwaves

Documents Trump released to support his claims — and previous assessments from the intelligence community — do not back up his most aggressive statements about election security.
In fact, some of the documents reach the opposite conclusion.
They also do not contain significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in election systems.
One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt:
“We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipu…

Takeaways From Trump’s Speech Claiming Election Vulnerabilities and China Interference
Documents released by the Trump administration to support the president’s claims did not back up his most aggressive statements.