No Kings 10/2025

One of the signs I saw today asked:

“Have we crossed the Rubicon yet?”

The Supreme Court has established that the President is not personally bound by laws when taking actions as President.

That immunity has manifested itself as a President funding the military forces through his directive, rather than through appropriations from Congress. Doing so is in direct violation of both Article I* of the US Constitution and the Congressionally passed Antideficiency Act (31 U.S.C. § 1341). I repeat, the military owes its wages to the will of the President and not the laws under the Constitution.

The immigration enforcement facilities have been refusing access to Congressional oversight visits. The forces abducting people off of the streets of the United States of America are not bound by nor loyal to the Congress and its laws.

I wrote at the beginning of the year that we should all be very concerned if the immigration enforcement efforts were not applied in good faith, and asserted I that they would not be. That has been proven true.

My sign carried at Jun 14th No Kings

* Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 (The Power of the Purse): "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law."

Research material: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

I have begun a project to map the impact of American revolutionaries to the various Congresses based on a metric inspired by Erdös Number, or Bacon Number to the more pop-culture inclined. My hypothesis is that there could be value in visualizing how far any given Congress is from the folks that actually founded the country.

This project began as a late night tweet on July the 4th, 2017. I was thinking out the differences in revolution, founding, and actual governing.

I wonder what year Congress dropped to Founding Member number 1? Dropped to 2?#sixDegreesOfRevolutionaries #baconnumber #erdosnumber

— M Molyett &YA1 (@SecsAndCyber) 8:29 PM - 4 Jul 2017

Wanting to find some existing research and maybe leads, I reached out to Twitter and was given some good hints into starting points for mapping connections: Eigenvector centrality. Turns out `* Number` mapping of a population is a form of Centrality analysis. Since my recent academic background is Cybersecurity and my undergrad was a decade ago, it was very helpful to get nudged into the proper academic terminology.

Anyone familiar with US history? Thinking about trying to quantify the impact of revolutionaries in US governance via Bacon number distance

— M Molyett &YA1 (@SecsAndCyber) 7:34 PM - 5 Jul 2017

I am currently in the data gathering stage. I need to compile, locally and in a useful format, all of the people to consider, with a focus on determining who all will be considered Founder Number 0. This has so far meant collecting the names on the signers of the Declaration of Independence and today I was starting on enumerating the delegates to the Continental Congress. Turns out the US Government has already collected that data into a book:

BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY

OF THE

UNITED STATES CONGRESS

1774-2005

THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

SEPTEMBER 5,1774, TO OCTOBER 21,1788

and

THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

FROM THE FIRST THROUGH THE ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESSES

MARCH 4,1789, TO JANUARY 3,2005, INCLUSIVE

Now, with that 2000+ page pdf in hand, I have the task of ingesting all that poorly formatted data.

Letter to Congress: TPA 'Fast Track'

Here is a letter that I have drafted to send to my Congressional Representative concerning the currently debated Trade Promotion Authority. Please copy it and send it to your Congressional Representative.

Find your rep: http://house.gov/representatives/

Read the Constitution Article 2 section 2

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<REPRESENTATIVE>,

I strongly urge you to do everything in your power to prevent the passage of the Senate's trade promotion authority bill.

As advertised, the bill is a clear violation of Article II, section II of the Constitution. Without both the ability to approve AND comment, then the Senate is unable to perform their Constitutional duties with regard to treaties.

Again, as a resident of the <DISTRICT> Congressional District of <STATE>, I encourage you to fully oppose this de facto Amendment by legislation. It is not within the power of the Congress to pass, and so it must not be.

Thank you,
<FULL NAME>
<ADDRESS>