1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

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When Rep. Victoria Spartz says “if you break the law you don’t deserve due process,” she’s either dangerously ignorant of the Constitution or deliberately misleading people. Due process isn’t about protecting criminals. It’s about protecting everyone from abuse of power.

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If I was a judge and a DOJ lawyer filed a brief saying "yes, we mistakenly shipped someone with a right to be here to a foreign gulag but you have no power to order us to bring him back" I'd put that lawyer in jail until that person was brought back.

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The vast majority of books on improving social skills are inherently anti-neurodivergence. Rename these to 'how to be a sheep'. There is one that basically just tells you to pretend you are someone else and to practice that. They seem to preach fitting in over belonging.

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For Poison Ivy fans who remember that bit from year 1 about interplanting--that's real; I wasn't making it up! Excellent write-up about indigenous permaculture: www.science.org/content/arti...

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