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More than friendly to fascists both abroad and at home, the Trump administration is now seeking to destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center -- historically one of the nation's most powerful and effective opponents of the Ku Klux Klan, American neo-Nazis and other white supremacist movements. This was the latest in a long series of signals from the White House to the president's swastika-flying fans. It means that such groups need no longer fear a resolute federal response to their criminality.On April 22, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced -- at a blatantly political press event -- that the Justice Department has indicted the SPLC for "wire fraud, false statements,

President Donald Trump was the seeming victim of an assassination attempt on Saturday — and one ex-presidential adviser, who served Trump’s Republican predecessor, says the president himself bears partial responsibility for what happened.“This isn’t normal,” wrote Steve Schmidt, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, on Sunday. “It isn’t random. And no matter how loudly the MAGA movement insists, it isn’t the fault of Donald Trump’s critics. The argument that

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized Democrats for opposing President Donald Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, prompting some of those same Democrats to point out the obvious: Because the White House Correspondents Dinner is a private event, it would never have been held at the White House, and therefore a ballroom would have made no difference.“We were there front and center,” Fetterman posted on X on Sunday. “That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom

President Donald Trump plans on meeting with King Charles III on Monday — and if early reports are to be believed, the encounter could be quite embarrassing for both men.“Trump has always been very receptive to the pageantry that comes with hobnobbing with royalty – but the King is also grappling with a family crisis that may cast another awkward shadow over his interactions with the president,” wrote The Independent's Alex Hannaford on Sunday. Citing both Trump’s criticism of Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not helping him in his war against Iran and the longstanding friendship between Trump, Charles’ brother Andrew Mo

The Supreme Court is so determined to kowtow to President Donald Trump, and so willing to openly politicize the bench, that it is losing tremendous credibility."In the past few weeks, two Supreme Court justices offered comments that were greeted with outrage and condemnation," wrote Jesse Wegman, senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, for The New York Times on Sunday. "The episodes were unrelated, but together they offer a revealing glimpse of the state of the Supreme Court, on the verge of momentous rulings in the weeks ahead. Only one justice issued a public apology — the wrong justice."Wegman went on to describe how Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal Demo

The New York Post obtained a copy of a manifesto written by Cole Allen, the 31-year-old California resident who opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night. The document reveals a chilling targeting list—and one glaring omission that experts are now scrutinizing.According to the Post, Allen sent the manifesto to family members just 10 minutes before the shooting. In it, he outlined his targets with precision, listing every Trump administration official he intended to attack. But there was one notable exception: FBI Director Kash Patel was

Editor's Note: AlterNet Editor and Publisher Roxanne Cooper also worked at Stars & Stripes from 2000-2003. While America is bogged down in this senseless war in Iran, Donald Trump and his reprehensible Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are once again attacking the welfare and morale of our troops.For the past few months, this destructive duo have been taking aim at the iconic Stars and Stripes newspaper and its congressionally mandated editorial independence, by quite literally trying to kill the messenger.It is unseemly, unnecessary and has been answered by journalists like myself and recently the newspaper’s ombudsman,

On my radio show-podcast—the Ralph Nader Radio Hour—interviews of knowledgeable people have detailed the ravages by the cruel, serial law violator, Tyrant Trump, inflicted on millions of Americans. Still, the report from the V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg produced a jolting Common Dreams headline: ‘Trump is Dismantling US Democracy at a Speed ‘Unprecedented in Modern History.’“The report described the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term as achieving in one year what budding autocracies take a decade to accomplish, adding that �

President Donald Trump has promised to look into the mysterious deaths of officials and scientists studying UFOs — but experts say this is one enigma that has more to it than appears to be the case at face value.“The accounts were published breathlessly online in social media but also by rightwing press accounts,” reported The Guardian’s Edward Helmore on Sunday. “Trump himself was asked about the story and promised to look into it. Soon, Republican lawmakers joined the debate demanded in a letter that the FBI, the Department of Energy, Nasa and other agencies investigate a ‘possible sinister connection’ in the disappearances.”The “disappearances” in q

A flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio was discovered all over Long Island — and authorities are issuing warnings about it.Causing the disease vibriosis, people infected with Vibrio can suffer symptoms including nausea, diarrhea, cramps, nausea, chills and sometimes even death, according to Grist. On average there are 80,000 cases of vibriosis each year, with roughly 100 fatalities.“Vulnificus is so potent it can squeeze through a pinhole-sized cut in the skin and lead to death in just 24 hours,” Grist explained. “In the last five years, the CDC registered 429 suc