The Iranian negotiators all wear glasses, probably b/c they read too many books as children. They are highly educated. The Americans are shallow buffoons.

1,370,070 Virginians voted early as of the state's final update this morning.

That compares to 1,485,413 who voted early before the governor's and legislative races last fall.

for anyone who missed this yesterday... check out my new story on *all state supreme court races* happening this year, with 60+ seats up, and you can also bookmark it to it as a resource through the fall!

Rising This Week: A milestone All Rise News celebrates its first anniversary on Tuesday! A note of appreciation and a vision for the path ahead.

It's been exactly one year since I went independent.

Thanks to everyone supporting All Rise News, and for those who aren't yet subscribers, check out what this newsletter built so far and future ambitions. buff.ly/1CbG9w3

It's the Flat Earther-ism of energy production - every bit as stupid as when "Mad" Mike Hughes died while trying to prove his Flat Earth hypothesis, when his homemade rocket crashed.

I know - we'll use the most advanced AI agents! I hear they're getting pretty good. arxiv.org/abs/2602.20021

A reminder that, if the referendum passes today in Virginia, it's not all quite resolved: the Virginia Supreme Court has yet to weigh in on the merits as it kicked that can down the road.

They are physically grabbing citizens and illegally detaining them in those privately run “immigration prisons”

CITIZENS !!!!!

ICE has to be dismantled
And guilty ICE personnel should be prosecuted.

Peace Talks Day is off to a great start.

In case you’ve forgotten this great moment in American conservative literary life. defector.com/american-con...

Article II Executive Branch
Section 4 Impeachment
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

A screencap of a quote post of the original post with Alexander Kustov saying "P.S. This post was entirely generated and posted on Substack by agentic AI using my new Claude Code (Opus 4.6) workflow. Make of that what you will." Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years. Things are changing already; we just need to wake up.

Here he is, telling us how he both uses LLMs to write and how LLMs can "do social science research" better than most professors with PhDs

Here's a study, published 2/2026, which shows exactly what happens when AI "agents" are given the freedom to run amok: nothing good. Catastrophe, even. This is the technology that AI boosters claim will transform the world. arxiv.org/abs/2602.20021

Howard Ahmanson almost singlehandedly bankrolled the Christian Reconstructionism movement, which wants to impose stoning for adultery, homosexuality, and teen rebellion. But apparently Rod Dreher's crude racism was too much for the Savings & Loan fortune scion.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Happy 89th Birthday George Takei!

George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment.

As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...

There should be a better mechanism for getting rid of a dangerous, traitorous president, before it’s too late.

If the choices are roll over and lose OR push back and win, we are on team push back and win every single day of the week. VOTE YES TOMORROW! Polls are open from 6:00am - 7:00pm. Make a plan to vote ➡️ iwillvote.com/va

ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary

Opinion | Americans Are Stepping Up to Stop Our Corporate Goliaths

Three decisions in three days last week showed us how Americans can keep corporate Goliaths in check, even when the federal government refuses to.
TicketMaster - illegal monopoly
Amazon - strongarming small business pricing
Preventing merger of 2 local TV stations
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

Yes.

Went to Salzburg Austria 2 weeks ago from Germany.

Almost did not see the border.

💚🍀

Today, driving from Vienna to Bratislava, you can still see how the EU helped unite Europe.

What used to be the iron curtain is just a bit of a slow down, crossing the border and then continuing your drive in the EU.

I thought I could save my little one's life as quickly as possible, but I didn't realize how incredibly difficult it would be.

My child's condition worsens every day, and I'm still far behind. I don't know why people haven't donated.
Please share this link with your friends.

gofund.me/7656b5ee6
🙏🏻

Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned today, a week after this:

An early-April race for Anchorage's city council has ended in recount territory; liberal candidate up 41 votes over the conservative with all counted.

(In city's other races, liberals defended all the other seats they were already holding to keep council control.) alaskapublic.org/news/anchora...

Just a reminder that pedophilia was only a small part of what Epstein and Maxwell did. They acted as brokers for moving phenomenal amounts of money without international government oversight while collecting blackmail for future “deals.” Who fills that role now? Is it Jared and Ivanka?

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Drone flight data compiled and visualized by @lemonodor.bsky.social and shared with The Intercept shows how, for example, the LAPD launched 32 separate drone flights to surveil the March 28 No Kings protest in downtown LA.

The LAPD told me they only hit record when a crime happens.

LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.

theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

Defund the hostile domestic troops who wage war against the civilian population of the United States.