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The Trump administration’s deportation campaign is already disrupting food production and will soon be felt directly in households. With much of America’s agricultural workforce made up of immigrants, the removal of tens of thousands of labourers means crops are left unpicked, fields are left fallow, and meatpacking lines are running below capacity. This loss of labour is driving up costs for farmers and processors, which will inevitably pass to consumers. The most immediate effect will be higher prices for fresh produce, meat, and dairy — staples that depend on intensive manual work. Shortages of certain fruits and vegetables may appear seasonally, and some imported goods will become more expensive as demand shifts abroad. While government stopgaps such as expanded visa schemes may ease pressure slightly, the overall consequence will be a more fragile food supply and a noticeable rise in the cost of basic foods for American families.

It is now unmistakable that the line has been crossed. The rank criminality and violence of the Trump regime have brought the United States to the brink of political collapse. This is no longer democracy in crisis — it is democracy in its final convulsions. The regime knows it cannot afford to lose power, for the moment the Democrats retake the White House, a reckoning will follow. Justice would demand trials, convictions, and prison cells for those who have subverted the republic — Mr Trump foremost among them. And so the logic of survival dictates tyranny. What we are witnessing is not an election cycle but a coup in slow motion: the death of American democracy and the birth of a new fascist order.

It is safe to say that democracy in the United States has ended. The Trump regime now has the power to suspend the Constitution before the next general election. It is difficult to see this not happening.

Another Sunday in America, another massacre — this time at a Mormon church in Michigan, where at least two people are dead. And once again, the mythical 'good guy with a gun' was nowhere to be found, despite years of NRA sloganeering that guns make people safer. Lawmakers, hands wrung raw from all the 'thoughts and prayers,' still insist they have no idea how to stop the endless bloodshed — except, of course, to sell more guns. Because nothing says public safety like doubling down on the very addiction that keeps the country bleeding.

The two-state solution is dead. It was just another victim of Israel's war. It is time for Israel to make way for Palestine - one, united, and free Palestine. Israel has surrendered its right to exist.

Palestine's struggle against Israeli colonial violence and decades of genocide has been vindicated. Israel is the guilty party - and Palestine has the right to defend itself. It is fighting for its existence. We have a duty to support Palestine and all the Palestinian people, and we have a duty to stand firmly against Israel. This means refusing to welcome Israelis, refusing to buy Israeli goods and services. It means boycotting everything that comes from or benefits this criminal state. The time for Palestine has come!

American Evangelicals are once again in the grip of a mass religious hysteria concerning the ‘rapture,’ an entirely fabricated future event when the ‘true Christians’ — all six of them — will be swept up into the heavens to be with Nicholas Cage. Watching this across a number of YouTube channels, it has become crystal clear to me that this is the complete failure of rationality. Self-identified prophets and apostles are reading the signs in the skies; blood moons, new moons, full moons, and cloud shapes. They are reading the plots of disaster movies as coded messages from the gods. They are obsessed with Jewish extremists’ desire to cut the throat of a red cow on the ruins of the Al-Aqsa mosque in the capital of Palestine. Stupid people do stupid things, and Evangelical Jesus-enthusiasm is a massive magnet for stupid people.

Britain's first minister, The Right Honourable Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Member of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, King's Counsel (Britain has a lot of idiotic royal honorary titles for its government flunkies), has recognised Palestinian statehood - months after stating that Israel's brutal treatment of Palestine for decades has ensured there is no viable Palestinian state. He always knew it was too little too late.

A single individual with little knowledge but a deep sense of grievance stumbles into an obscure online forum where others of similar ignorance congregate, exchanging half-baked theories and reckless notions that flatter their biases. What begins as a haven for a handful of people sharing stupid and dangerous ideas soon transforms into a self-reinforcing echo chamber, where dissent is punished, and outrageous claims are rewarded with affirmation and attention. Over time, the stupidity develops into a kind of shared mythology, with memes, slogans, and simplified narratives that make complex issues appear obvious and urgent to the uncritical. As more people—isolated, frustrated, or simply gullible—are drawn in through algorithms and online recommendation systems, the forum grows in both size and influence, spilling its rhetoric across social media, comment sections, and eventually into mainstream discourse. At a certain point, sheer repetition grants these absurd ideas a veneer of legitimacy, attracting opportunistic leaders who capitalise on the movement, giving it a pseudo-political edge. Offline, this manifests in protests, harassment campaigns, and even acts of violence, as members translate online bravado into real-world action, emboldened by the sense that they are part of a worldwide cause. Institutions struggle to respond: censoring the stupidity risks martyring it, ignoring it risks normalising it, and engaging with it risks amplifying it. In the long run, such a community erodes public trust in truth itself, creating parallel realities in which facts are irrelevant and emotions rule. The stupid person who first stumbled into the forum has become part of a swelling tide of foolishness, and while most adherents may remain online warriors, the sheer persistence and scale of the movement destabilises societies, making governance harder, fuelling conspiratorial thinking, and paving the way for demagogues who thrive in chaos.

The Groyper movement — though loosely organised and internet-native — poses a destabilising threat because it combines targeted online radicalisation, contempt for mainstream institutions, and a strategy that welcomes crisis as a catalyst for political change. Their tactics — meme warfare and the amplification of grievance — both normalise extreme views and funnel vulnerable recruits into more militant milieus, making lone-actor violence and small-cell plots more likely. Where Groypers overlap with accelerationist logics, they do not advocate for policy change but seek to hasten institutional collapse (political parties, media, campus governance) so that social order itself becomes contested and brittle — a pathway that extremist analysts identify as conducive to violent escalation. Their participation in and encouragement of high-risk mass events (for example the networks around January 6) show how street mobilisation can translate internet radicalism into direct attempts to subvert democratic processes. At scale, this combination threatens national cohesion, complicates homeland security (by increasing insider and home-grown risks to critical infrastructure and political institutions), and can internationalise violence and extremist narratives across borders through online platforms.

In the United States, teen school shooters are often treated as aberrations — “monsters” that erupt inexplicably from an otherwise healthy society — but the uncomfortable truth is that their actions reflect a grim normality within a profoundly abnormal culture. They are formed in a nation saturated with militarism, where violence is sanctified as a tool of policy, where guns are ubiquitous and easier to access than healthcare, where masculinity is measured in domination, and where alienation festers in a hyper-competitive, individualist order that strips life of meaning. In this context, the school shooter is not some inexplicable freak but an extreme, horrifying embodiment of what America already is: a society that worships violence and then feigns shock when its children mirror the lessons it has taught them.

It has been confirmed by the United Nations that the State of Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people. This is now beyond dispute and no longer open to discussion. The only response to this is twofold: 1. the genocide must be ended immediately, and 2. Palestine must be granted full member status at the United Nations and Israel's entire apparatus of illegal settlements and 'security' in Palestine must be fully dismantled. Palestinian safety demands the complete removal of all Israeli forces from sovereign Palestinian territory. This is the only response to this dire situation.

Israel cannot recover from this! The United Nations has concluded that the State of Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. No longer is this mere opinion or some masked prejudice Zionists can dismiss as ‘antisemitism.’ This is the decided conclusion of the highest arbiter of international law in the world. Sure, the maniacs in the wheelhouse of the Israeli government — all people sought by the International Court of Justice on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity — will continue to call this a ‘fake report,’ but the game is up. They have already lost. States supporting them and sending arms will quietly shuffle away, states sitting quietly on the fence will get on the right side of history, and those calling it out will be vindicated. Israelis themselves will begin to take stock and wake up from their stupor. But the damage is done. Israel will be guilty of this evil forever, and Judaism — remember 90% of Jews identify as Zionists — will be forever blemished. Judaism might recover. It might. But Israel is now definitively a pariah state. No one can support it now.

At this rate, I half expect to be billed a “consultation fee” just for looking at the menu.

The United Nations has laid it bare: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. This is not hyperbole — it’s a catastrophic moral breakdown. Irish citizens are travelling to Gaza to enlist with the IDF — participating directly in atrocities. This is abhorrent. We demand action. Ireland must arrest and prosecute any Irish national complicit in genocide. No excuses, no loopholes. We must honour international law, human decency, and our own constitution. To stay passive now is to betray every principle we claim to believe in. If genocide is real, so too must be justice.