Got brunch with a dear friend who is a psych professor at a public university and so is deeply affected by state laws passing restricting what they can teach; we talked a great deal about the laws in her state that include not questioning "meritocracy." Every aspect of psychology that has informed a more just and holistic understanding of human ability, entire subfields of our work that include important evidence about underestimation and misestimation in achievement systems, disallowed.