Ah good tip! I was wondering why it doesn’t seem to recognize URLs and hashtags. I’ll try that.

I used to, but I turned it off because this should solve the same problem! Lots of more work to be done on it, but it’s a starts. I’ll document how I did it and then share the docs when I’m done!

If you’re interested in how NSPM-7 weaponizes language, cynically frames threats, and reshapes domestic policing of ideas, read the blog post I just wrote:

He loves to bitch and moan about being the victim of a witch hunt. Now he’s abusing presidential security memos and executive orders to lay the foundation for turning the apparatus of the state into a massive instrument of his own witch hunting party.

NSPM-7 seems particularly dangerous to me because it’s a powerful artifact of the unreality-building project that Trump has been working hard at since before he announced his presidential campaign in 2015.

Of course, this isn’t a new tactic. Fascists like Trump and the Republican Party are masters of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy (Latin for “after this, therefore because of this”). Create a boogeyman and use it as a pretext for crushing dissent. It’s a classic fascist play.

My point is: recognizing fascism means seeing the mechanisms — the “us vs them,” the mythmaking, the suppression of dissent — not just the labels. Because otherwise we mis-diagnose the problem and mis-target the cure.

This matters because we have to ask: who defines “terrorism,” who defines “anti-fascism,” and who gets silenced as a result? If dissent and structural critique are treated like terrorism, we’re in very dangerous territory — not to mention that Antifa is not a real organization.

What about “anti-fascism,” or #antifa as Trump says? The term has been hijacked. In the memo, it becomes a cover for targeting disparate groups as “domestic terrorists” — conflating protest and dissent with violent revolution. NSPM-7 does the same with “anti-capitalists,” as I wrote about here:

In the modern US context think: anticommunism, the fetishizing of “traditional values,” nationalism/nativism, and rejection of LGBTQ+ identities. That’s the flavor of modern American fascism I think NSPM-7 codifies, and it will be used as a pretext for targeting people Trump dislikes.

First, let’s define fascism. It isn’t just “Nazis” or “someone I don’t agree with.” According to Jason Stanely, it’s a system that divides people into “us” vs “them,” taps into mythic pasts via race, religion, and nationalism, and elevates one group’s core identity over others.

Jusssst saying…!

Since I’ve been reading KV, his quote about how we’re dancing animals has been on my mind. What are a bunch of dancing animals doing individually-packaged in metal and plastic boxes on wheels for hours on end each week?! We’re dying a slow, painful death of the soul, accelerated by car dependency.

Having the kind of urban design and infrastructure it takes to make this kind of lifestyle possible is so feasible it hurts. In most of North America, we’ve just decided not to do it, and it’s killing our imagination. It’s killing our humanity.

This is your brain on cars. I think cars have some place in modern society, but we rely on them far too much in North America. I definitely don’t think we should have to use a car for daily urban commutes or even most errands.

I was definitely tired when I got home at the end of those two days, but my brain didn’t feel fried like it does after a long commute home in Atlanta rush hour traffic. I usually spend my evenings after a day in-office sitting on the couch watching TV. My brain is too tired to do anything else.