Global EV Sales Rose 20 percent in 2025
Last year global electric vehicle adoption grew by 20 percent. There was significant growth in every major region except for North America, according to the research firm Rho Motion. Global consumers bought 20.7 million EVs, an increase of 20 percent from the prior year. China accounted for the majority of that total, with 12.9 million cars and light trucks sold within its borders, up 17 percent.

The highest percentage growth was in Europe, which was up 33 percent with 4.3 million in sales. In North America, where the market was hurt by the cancellation of tax credits for EV buyers, sales of new EVs hit 1.8 million, down 4 percent. To put this in perspective, in 2025 approximately 16.2 million light vehicles were sold in the US.  EVs accounted for approximately 11 percent of all vehicles sold within that region.

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Ohio State University ignored community and student demands that the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and Border Patrol be banned from the January 20 Career Fair on campus. So, students showed up and drove the DHS recruiters away. In the meantime, however, three were arrested although they were not breaking any laws.

This was a headline in the New York Times on Tuesday: “With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest: After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land.” Here is a sentence from the article that followed: “Never in the past century has America gone forth to seize other countries’ land and subjugate its citizens against their will.”

Setting aside Alaska and Hawaii where, respectively, the people were never asked, and the people had been violently taken over years earlier against the will of most of them, it’s true that straightforward conquest went out of fashion around the time of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which became law 98 years ago. But to state so simply the popular wisdom that the United States has supposedly not seized any land in 100 years, one has to pretend that military bases do not exist. Here’s a small sampling of the problems with believing that lie:

A new business deal backed by Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire vulture capitalist running for Ohio Governor, is a preview into how he will approach power, responsibility, and public trust if elected.

Strive Capital, a firm founded and controlled by Vivek Ramaswamy that recently relocated from Ohio to Texas, closed a deal last week to acquire Semler Scientific, a midsize manufacturer of FDA-approved diagnostic devices used by physicians to assess cardiac disease.

Minneapolis rap group Atmosphere are playing Columbus, 1-27-2026 with Kool Keith, Sage Francis, RA The Ruggedman, and Mr. Dibbs at Kemba Live. Kool Keith is performing with Ced Gee? Is this an UltraMagnetic MC’s concert? We know Atmosphere is rapper Slug and producer ANT. Atmosphere released an album called Jestures last year via their label Rhymesayers Ent. Atmosphere toured last year with Lupe Fiasco, Pharcyde, and Cypress Hill. Atmosphere is known for their live shows which showcases Slug’s penchant for humanity within humor, and an informed Hip Hop perspective.

Atmosphere’s production by ANT is either hard drums or ballads. Atmosphere are considered amongst the best underground live rap shows. Atmosphere are KRS and The Roots status live. Atmosphere are owners of a label called Rhymesayers. Rhymesayers releases music by MF Doom, Kurious, Black Starr, and Soul Position. Soul Position are Blueprint and RJD2 from Columbus, Ohio.

I’ve known Slug from Rhymesayers for decades. Is this interview about the UltraMagnetic MC’s? ICE invaded Minneapolis.  ICE killed Renee Good.

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