Source: New York Post
“A disgraced small-town mayor who was allegedly caught by her kids having sex with a drunken 16-year-old boy at a booze-fueled pool party ordered emergency contraception on DoorDash afterward. Misty Roberts, the 43-year-old former leader of tiny DeRidder, LA, is now on trial for third-degree rape over the 2024 alleged tryst. After news spread of Roberts’[s] reputed romp with the teen in the town of 9,800, the mother of the victim (a friend of the defendant’s son) texted the then-mayor to ensure she was not pregnant, to which she replied she was on birth control, prosecutors told jurors last week, according to KPLC. Roberts then shared a screenshot of the exchange in a group chat with her friends, who urged her to take Plan B, an over-the-counter ‘morning after’ pill. A DoorDash driver testified that he accepted a request from ‘Misty C’ to purchase the emergency contraceptive and leave it at her front door.” (03/02/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/02/us-news/mayor-accused-of-raping-drunken-16-year-old-at-pool-party-ordered-morning-after-pill-on-doordash/
Source: The Hill
by Svante Myrick
“We’re all familiar with the idea that actions have consequences. Parents teach it to their children as an important part of raising responsible human beings. As adults, we sometimes get harsh reminders of this truth. This principle doesn’t apply just on a personal level. Our justice system imposes consequences on people who break the law or harm others. For a society that is free, fair and just, those consequences must apply to everyone. That’s why ‘equal justice under law’ is carved in stone over the entrance to our Supreme Court. Unfortunately, the Trump regime makes a mockery of that principle, insulating the president, his underlings, his friends and anyone willing to pay his price from the consequences of their lawbreaking.” (03/02/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5759275-trump-justice-department-corruption/
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In thundering attacks on Iran’s government that started Saturday, Israel and the United States appear to have shredded what remains of the liberal, rules-based world order. The head of the United Nations – the pinnacle of that order – called the attacks a threat to international security. Yet as much as that charge might be true, President Donald Trump nonetheless has left open a door to an essential value that has sustained that order for decades. He told the Iranian people in a video that they themselves, not American soldiers with boots on the ground in Iran, must ultimately choose to be free from the regime – one that has denied basic rights, killed dissenters by the thousands, and sown terror abroad. Liberty, in other words, is first a mental commitment.” (03/01/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0301/A-test-for-world-order-in-Iran
Source: Reuters
“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services intends to impose sanctions that would suspend enrollment in Elevance Health’s Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans starting March 31, pushing the company’s shares down more than 3%. Elevance disclosed in a filing on Monday that CMS notified the health insurer on February 27 of its intention and indicated that the proposed sanctions relate to alleged non-compliance in submitting certain required risk-adjustment data for services provided before April 3, 2023 under the plans, which cover prescription drug costs for older adults. … Since November 13, 2018, Elevance has failed to submit data corrections for diagnosis codes it identified as unsupported by medical record documentation through CMS’s required electronic systems, according to the agency’s February 27 notice. Instead, Elevance has repeatedly provided this information via encrypted external USB flash drives, a method that the company has explicitly rejected.” (03/02/26)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cms-plans-sanctions-suspending-enrollment-elevances-medicare-advantage-drug-2026-03-02/
Source: Gracearchy with Jim Babka
“She Came in Peace They Put Her In Chains.” (03/02/26)
https://rumble.com/v76dd34-she-came-in-peace-they-put-her-in-chains-instant-grace-with-jim-babka-ig47.html
Source: spiked
by Tim Black
“‘Death to the dictator.’ Iranian protesters have chanted this in the direction of Ayatollah Khamenei for years now. On Saturday morning, a US-Israeli airstrike finally made good on their call to arms, killing the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic alongside several family members in a compound in the heart of Tehran. It is a truly momentous event, an inflection point in modern history. We can and must debate the wisdom and morality of this act of US-led ‘regime change’ – historical precedents don’t bode well. But we should be in no doubt as to the wretched, wicked nature of the regime the US seeks to topple.” (03/02/26)
https://archive.is/9j0es
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Gavin Herrington
“Kentucky has one of the highest rates in the nation of children with an incarcerated parent. Those are not statistics. Those are kids saying goodnight to pictures and running to mailboxes, hoping.” (03/02/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/mom-went-to-jail-kentucky-can-do-better/
Source: Orange County Register
“Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot Claude and related consumer-facing applications went down early Monday, with the startup saying it has been grappling with ‘unprecedented demand’ for its services over the past week. Nearly 2,000 users had reported Claude AI service disruptions at the outage’s peak around 6:40 a.m. New York time, according to service-monitoring website Downdetector. Anthropic said in a statement by WhatsApp that ‘consumer-facing surfaces’ such as claude.ai and the company’s apps were offline. Businesses that have integrated Claude’s AI models into their own systems were unaffected.” (03/02/26)
https://www.ocregister.com/2026/03/02/anthropics-chatbot-claude-goes-down-amid-unprecedented-demand/
Source: USA Today
by Rex Huppke
President Donald Trump has dragged America into a war of his choosing, attacking Iran with little public support, zero congressional approval and virtually no public justification. The path forward is unclear, and our self-absorbed leader is already speaking about the loss of American lives with the nonchalance one expects from a small man never held accountable for the consequences of his actions. Announcing the deaths of four U.S. service members following the attack launched Feb. 28, Trump said in a video posted to social media: ‘And sadly, there will likely be more before it ends, that’s the way it is. Likely be more.’ … He might as well have added a ‘Ho-hum,’ such is his apparent concern for the women and men he has now put in danger for … what?” (03/02/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/02/iran-war-trump-american-deaths/88880536007/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The US-Israeli war on Iran rages on. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed. Iran has been hammering US military bases in the region with missiles and drones, and oil prices are already beginning to rise as the IRGC cuts off the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the attacks. US soldiers have already begun to die. US Central Command reports that three American service members were killed in combat, with five seriously wounded — and it should here be noted that ‘seriously wounded’ can mean permanently brain damaged, comatose, or otherwise rendered severely handicapped for the rest of their lives. … I have said it before and I will say it again: every single American soldier who dies in this war was killed by Trump and Netanyahu.” (03/02/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/02/us-calls-iranian-retaliatory-strikes-unprovoked-and-other-notes/
