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@kindtrader.bsky.social
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In the beginning there was chance. I don't have faith, I have standards: corroborated evidence. Systems that require self-sacrifice to sustain them are already broken. Be kind to yourself.

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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@peters.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov Congress holds the purse. Please consider this model rider: no funds, including 31 U.S.C. §1304, for the private presidential settlement fund unless Congress specifically appropriates by docket, purpose, and maximum amount. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Model Appropriations Rider re: "Anti-Weaponization Fund" v1.0
The Model Rider Model Appropriations Rider — Private Presidential Settlement Fund Limitation None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act, including the permanent indefinite appropria...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Discharge petitions shouldn’t be extraordinary. Citizens, states, counties, and local governments should be able to trigger a vote too. DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Share it with your Congressmember.
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U.S. Constitutional Amendment: Legislative Accountability
This artifact is a model constitutional amendment designed to strengthen legislative accountability by requiring recorded floor consideration of introduced legislation once public or governmental thre...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you're a scholar, researcher, or discoverer, do your best to stay away from Social Sciences Research Network (@ssrn.bsky.social). Opaque and arbitrary policies dominate their decision-making and they ALWAYS drag their feet getting your research uploaded anyway. Stay away. Zenodo is my choice.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
My fellow humans, meet ¯\(ツ)/¯ <--- Chance ¯\(ツ)/¯ is the bedrock structure needed for the universe as we see it today. Yep...I'm claiming that. You can see the document when it gets accepted at @ssrn.bsky.social or below in my draft copy: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Meeting ¯\(ツ)/¯ Artifact v1.4
Meeting ¯\(ツ)/¯ — Chance, Failure, and the Normal Behavior of the Universe 0. How to Read This This document is not asking for belief, agreement, or interpretation. It asks only that the reader adopt ...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Spoiler: the nervous system is input, not authority. That’s the entire professional canon. Full artifact + model school board template: pending acceptance at @ssrn.bsky.social, available here on GDocs. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Calm Classroom Professional Template v1.1
The Calm Classroom Professional Standard with an accompanying Model School Board Template PROFESSIONAL CANON STANDARD The human nervous system is input alone. Nervous-system signals may be fast, loud,...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
AND she's a terrible human being. If she does this when there are rules in place (that she's clearly ignoring), what does she do when no one is watching? Don't even want to think about it. Ty for sharing.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Totally supported by the evidence. These people cannot be responsible with their funding. Totally within the scope of Congress to provide oversight. Don't let this one get away.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Supporting articles of impeachment from the junior branch of the Legislature against several members of this administration is the most patriotic thing I can think of to do. Prayers and statements don't do anything.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
remember their names. say them all you want. stop saying his. that's what i say. ty for this and for your work.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Homie...really...we got bigger fish to fry right now. Here. In the corporal world.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Tincher v. Noem now includes first-hand evidence of a fatal federal shooting. When force precedes verified threat and documentation trails the act, the constitutional sequence fails. Courts must intervene to halt enforcement that outruns due process.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A crib sheet for anyone in the law profession; it uses Structural Flow as the lens to translate classic doctrine. Dispatches from the Record: Clerk Notes No. 9 — Entropy Across Doctrine It's awaiting acceptance on @ssrn.bsky.social or you can access it here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Dispatches from the Record: Note no. 9 Entropy for Clerks
Dispatches from the Record: Clerk Notes No. 9 — Entropy Across Doctrine Abstract This dispatch compresses a recurring observation from high-level clerking: professional pressure points arise not from...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Nothing and how expensive it really is for the universe to maintain. It's REALLY costly... Nothingness and the Cost of Perfection in This Universe: Structural Accounting Under Chance docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Nothingness and the Cost of Perfection artifact v1.1
Nothingness and the Cost of Perfection in This Universe I. Purpose and Scope This paper examines a question that has accompanied inquiry for as long as inquiry has existed: Why is the...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The ledger starts to come into focus here. The Bath of Chance: Immiscible Persistence and the Cost of Time in Cosmology docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Bath of Chance artifact v1.1
The Bath of Chance I. Purpose and Scope This paper examines a class of cosmological assumptions that are rarely stated explicitly, yet quietly govern much contemporary interpretatio...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Adding up the cost of chemistry. These are all awaiting acceptance on @ssrn.bsky.social or you can access them below. Biology as a Grammar of Chemical Persistence: What Entropy Could Not Finish up first. Persistence has a cost... docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Biology as the Chemical Grammar of Persistence v1.2
Biology as a Grammar of Chemical Persistence: What Entropy Could Not Finish Abstract This paper reframes biology as a late, narrow regime of chemical persistence under ent...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I think it's more "listen to your nervous system; the Golden Rule is the best we got and that's what it says to do." Whatever the reason, I agree with the conclusion. Doesn't matter how we got here, we're here.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Thank you for being brave. I'm sure it's not easy. Remember when the people who push back at you are at their loudest...they're still completely incoherent. Their volume won't change that fact.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This tragedy — another American killed — shows that existing oversight is insufficient. Senators have a responsibility to ensure constitutional limits are respected. Please use your oversight and funding authorities to demand transparency, records, and accountability before more lives are lost.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
When corroborated harm persists, the Senate’s duty is oversight. That means hearings, records, conditions — and appropriations control if needed. Authorization pauses until constitutional limits are restored. @slotkin.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov. Before a Michigander is harmed.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Waitwaitwaitwait... I forgot I remembered you had a second channel.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Applying Structural Flow to Chemistry...look what fell out? Uploaded and awaiting acceptance on @ssrn.bsky.social or available below. docs.google.com/document/d/1... docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Biology as the Chemical Grammar of Persistence v1.2
Biology as a Grammar of Chemical Persistence: What Entropy Could Not Finish Abstract This paper reframes biology as a late, narrow regime of chemical persistence under ent...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
As promised, here is a more "proper research paper". I believe it introduces several possible paradigm shifts into Chemistry, but that's up to the specialists to parse. It's now uploaded and awaiting acceptance at @ssrn.bsky.social or available on GDocs below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Chemical Primitive Thesis V1.32
The Chemical Primitive Introduction Chemistry is commonly described in terms of substances, reactions, and mechanisms. Yet beneath these descriptions lies a more basic question...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"...Cuz every little thing... ...is gonna be alright... I say don't worry...bout a thing..." Stay sane and healthy out there. None of us are going to make it out alive anyway. We may as well enjoy the ride and do what we can to leave things in better condition than we found them.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Got a big and much needed belly laugh from this one. Thx prof! No one's going to hell anyway, so we should all just chill about it. Well said, my favorite Pink Prof!
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
His hands are so small...huh...wonder what that corresponds with...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@ssrn.bsky.social The people have spoken. My "learn along with me" series isn't popping. No problem, means less work for the good people at SSRN because I will collapse the rest of my series into classic research papers. Last "note" below. Full papers to follow. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Calm Classroom No. 2
The Calm Classroom Staffing Brief No. 2 — Speed Is a Warning Sign Spoiler (you can stop reading after this paragraph): When things feel urgent, treat that as information—not instruction. Speed is a wa...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Can confirm. It's pretty terrible. So glad I had a spine and learned to reject early, but not everyone has that...and it shouldn't be an issue to begin with.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Smart woman. Why we're discussing this in the first place, however, that's a whole different story.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It is NOT too much to demand competence from your member of Congress. Anyone who's bitching is just being unprofessional. Full stop. An incoherent position for anyone getting paid to do a gig.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Glad the persistence has paid off. That's why I keep sharing my work into the silence. Eventually, intelligent people will pick it up. Until then...I wait and keep the work honest. Just like you all. Ty for the professional example and inspiration to keep going.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Enforcement without legal predicates isn’t enforcement — it’s unlawful force. The Constitution requires reasonable suspicion, warrants, and accountability. This lawsuit asks the courts to restore those limits.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
100% agree. Treating people how they want to be treated (the platinum rule) is far superior to the golden rule anyway. So this approach is consistent. Well said.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I-Dream-of-Genie that shit. Isn't that how an all-powerful deity works? Agree with the sentiment, but that does about as good as praying for change...huh...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
@ssrn.bsky.social accepted ~10 uploads last night. Only a few hours in, the best performer is "The Quiet Classroom". Wonder why that is...lol. I think I will finish the law and Physio series before tackling Physics, Chem, and Philosphy. Thank you for the surprise. The work isn't done yet. Xoxoxo
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
When executive action persists without lawful authorization, the Constitution supplies remedies across Articles I, II, and III — oversight, appropriations control, judicial review, and formal accountability — until legality is restored.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Newest upload awaiting acceptance on @ssrn.bsky.social (as promised, slowing down...). A love letter to high-level clerks, their profession, and the work itself. Available here and soon on SSRN. docs.google.com/document/d/1... As you can see...it begins with a little spice...
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Chambers Novel v1.06
Chambers, a Novel Chapter 1 Lisa opened her eyes. Gabe was watching her — or she thought he was. His ears had shifted slightly, and his eyes held that brightness she'd learned meant he was enjoying hi...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Always has been, homie.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I make it a practice to not type his name. I usually say "the administration" or "the President". Been that way for about 3 years now. I will not use his name again if I can help it. Trying to be a part of the solution and not give him the attention he wants.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Oof. I feel for you AND them. But their incoherence isn't your responsibility, my favorite pink prof. xoxoxo. Hope it went well.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Yes. They can. Well said. They can hold funding if they are not satisfied with the oversight of the funds. I may have the terms wrong, but I got the shape right. I hope you are encouraging the same, BC. OR, I hope you have a better idea.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
awwww...it's not the size, it's how you use it. And this is terribly; imagine in 10 years, my nieces seeing this and thinking "geezus, things really WERE that bad..." in history class or something.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
HI BPJ!! I wrote a template amicus regarding your case. I hope someone took the framing and used it. It's so nice to see you. Best of luck. No matter what, I am doing what I can to make what you went through a thing of the past. Be well.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A koan for originalism: if history yields no single, stable answer, what exactly is being “fixed”? Law still must decide under uncertainty. The problem isn’t history — it’s pretending selective fragments can substitute for institutional judgment.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Fed’s independence is protected structurally, not rhetorically. Senators do it by guarding confirmation standards, resisting political pressure on rates, and enforcing evidence-based oversight. That boundary—not interference—is what stabilizes prices and expectations.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
OR, you're a gawd and can do what you want...it's really more of a weak suggestion, if we're honest. The best this book has to offer is the golden rule. The platinum rule is an upgrade. Stop acting like we don't know better. It's foolish and a waste of what little time we have on earth. Thx prof!
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Yep. Sorry I'm not sorry. We know better now. Stop acting like we don't...or...you know...take an unnecessary risk and live (or not) with the consequences. Thx Prof.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
If a voter lawfully submits a ballot on time, the vote is complete. Due process does not allow the State to retroactively assign voters the risk of mail delays beyond their control. Infrastructure failure is a state problem—not a voter defect. Full stop.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A real ban on congressional stock trading — covering members, spouses, staff, and independent oversight — already exists as a draft statute: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @slotkin.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov
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LIAA v2.3
LEGISLATIVE INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT Model Law – Public Trust and Stewardship Draft v2.3 (For educational and public-access purposes only.) PART I — Principles and Structural Safeguards Sect...
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I hope my senator, Senator @sarahanthony.bsky.social agrees. It also feels like something Senator @stephanielilychang.bsky.social would be interested in as well. Say the word, and I'll spin up a template or rough draft of the legislation. Otherwise, I support the shape of this idea. Two thumbs up.
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Rick @kindtrader.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
There’s already a clean legal framework for this. A draft amicus brief addressing secret, pretextual federal efforts to restrict FDA-approved medication — grounded in the APA, FDCA, and due process — is available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Public Amicus Medication Abortion v1.00
AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF OF PRAXIS FOUNDRY In Support of Plaintiffs Challenging Secret Development of Nationwide Restrictions on Medication Abortion (Case caption intentionally omitted for modularity — ins...
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