Are Maine's "Group Homes" The Next Medicaid
Scandal To Unravel?
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 2/12/2026 12:26:59 PM
Is Maine the next Minnesota? Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, openly asked that question in a video posted to on Friday (snip) [based on] compliance issues in MaineCare Section 28, i.e. rehabilitative and community support services for children with autism. (snip) However, a Maine Wire investigation has found widespread concern (snip) within another, larger MaineCare program -- Section 21 -- a program that provides residential care in two-person group homes for adults with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disorders.
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Internal communications from the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that staffers rushed to publish a landmark climate regulation at a plum time for political messaging and [were] imagining "green hugs" with green groups ahead of the announcement. The regulation, known as the Endangerment Finding, expanded the definition of harmful air pollutants to include greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and therefore allows the EPA to regulate them under the Clean Air Act. The EPA proposed a rule to rescind it in July 2025 (snip), a decision critics have previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation would be a boon for key industries and consumer choice.
The Minnesota State Patrol quietly limited the ability of its troopers to contact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during traffic stops involving suspected illegal immigrants, multiple sources tell Alpha News. (snip) The State Patrol makes more than 300,000 traffic stops each year. Multiple state troopers (snip) explained that the new directive came down sometime during during the summer of 2024 -- around when Walz was running for vice president. (snip) "There's no written policy and that's the point," one trooper said. (snip) The source said state troopers routinely pull people over who don't speak English and have no ID.
Is Maine the next Minnesota? Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, openly asked that question in a video posted to on Friday (snip) [based on] compliance issues in MaineCare Section 28, i.e. rehabilitative and community support services for children with autism. (snip) However, a Maine Wire investigation has found widespread concern (snip) within another, larger MaineCare program -- Section 21 -- a program that provides residential care in two-person group homes for adults with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disorders.
Judge Releases Four Illegal Immigrants
Convicted Of Murder, Child Sex Crimes
From ICE Custody 16 replies
Convicted Of Murder, Child Sex Crimes
From ICE Custody 16 replies
A federal judge released four illegal immigrants who were convicted of murder and child sex crimes from the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles for the Middle District of Louisiana, an Obama appointee, granted the defendants release from ICE custody, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. "The ramifications will only be the continued rape, murder, assault, and robbery of more American victims," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "Releasing these monsters is inexcusably reckless[.]"
A U.S. Attorney who was appointed by federal judges in New York was quickly fired by the White House. On Wednesday, Donald T. Kinsella, 79, was appointed as U.S. Attorney or the Northern District of New York in a private ceremony, the New York Times reported. Then, Kinsella said, he received an email from a White House official hours later, telling him he was being removed from the post. Kinsella told The Times that he did not yet know whether the White House email carried the force of law (snip.) It is unclear whether there is any recourse for the Northern District judges.
In a blistering House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Department of Justice on Wednesday, Rep. Ted Lieu launched a desperate attack on Attorney General Pam Bondi, accusing her of lying under oath about President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein, only to be utterly dismantled when Bondi flipped the script, unleashing damning statistics on California's sanctuary-fueled crime wave. (snip) The state has released 4,561 criminal illegal aliens onto its streets (snip) [including] 234 sexual predator[s] (snip.)
On the night of Thursday, February 5, Trump's Truth Social account posted a video about election fraud that included a two-second splice featuring Barack and Michelle Obama, portrayed as apes in the style of The Lion King. The outrage machine swung into gear (snip.) But as the aching "anti-racism industry" locomotive groaned (snip) editors at The Guardian (snip) were weighing a story that would have staggering implications for President Trump (snip.) It was, in large part, an attempt to lay the foundations for a fresh impeachment of the 47th President of the United States.
The State Department has concluded that Code Pink and People's Forum are linked to Chinese influence operations, according to a report the agency sent to Congress. (snip) According to the report (snip) China allegedly "spreads propaganda through (snip) organizations like Code Pink, the People's Forum and (snip) the Singham network." The Singham networks is nonprofits funded by tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, whose wife is a co-founder of Code Pink. (snip) [Code Pink] pushes its pro-China position through its "China Is Not Our Enemy" working group, and has hosted pro-China webinars[.]
During a House Ways And Means Committee hearing Tuesday, former U.S. tech mogul Neville Roy Singham was regularly named in the discussion and debate as to how foreign adversaries help fund U.S. agitator groups through what one witness described as "foreign dark money." Singham [is] a U.S. citizen who sold his IT consultancy company for $785 million before moving to Shanghai[.] (snip) "Singham and his wife, a co-founder of CodePink, donated over $20 million to the People's Forum through shell companies and donor-advised funds to hide the original source of the money." (snip) The People's Forum has been one of the loudest groups encouraging and facilitating (snip) anti-ICE demonstrations[.]
FBI Has "Substantiated" Irregularities
In Georgia 2020Vote Counts, Probing If
They Were Intentional 22 replies
In Georgia 2020Vote Counts, Probing If
They Were Intentional 22 replies
The FBI has "substantiated" some major irregularities in how votes were counted in Georgia's largest urban area in the aftermath of the 2020 election and is probing whether those failures were intentional efforts to violate federal election law, according to a bombshell affidavit unsealed by a federal court on Tuesday. FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans first filed the affidavit last month to establish probable cause for a raid that seized about 700 boxes of Georgia 2020 elections ballots from a storage warehouse [snip.]
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) is calling for federal action against the NFL and NBC following Sunday's explicit Super Bowl halftime show. In a post on X on Monday, Fine argued that the Spanish-language performance violated federal broadcast standards and should result in major penalties. (snip) Fine said Bad Bunny's performance (snip) would not be tolerated if the lyrics were performed in English (snip) "the broadcast would have been pulled down and fines would have been enormous." (snip) The requested action would target the NFL, NBC, and Bad Bunny. "Lock them up," Fine added.
Walz Administration Gives Potentially
Fraudulent Medicaid Providers Advance
Notice Of Site Visits 7 replies
Fraudulent Medicaid Providers Advance
Notice Of Site Visits 7 replies
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) is performing unannounced site visits on more than 5,800 Medicaid providers in the state. The problem? DHS lets providers know roughly when those site visits will occur. (snip) (snip) Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and human Services (HHS) said it was going to withhold funds from those programs (snip.) As part of an effort to get HHS to reverse course, DHS has now unveiled an [onsite audit] initiative called "Minnesota Revalidate 2026." (snip) By telegraphing the site visits, DHS has given potentially fraudulent providers the opportunity to prepare for them.
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More than a million dollars will soon be doled out to black residents of Evanston, Illinois, under the city’s reparations program.
Evanston’s Reparations Committee announced last week that 44 people will be getting $25,000 each, for a total of $1.1 million, according to the Chicago Tribune.
All 44 are descendants of individuals who qualify under the city’s program that pays out reparations to black residents who claimed they experienced housing discrimination between 1919 and 1969. The payments are intended to be used for housing expenses, Cynthia Vargas, Evanston’s communications and community engagement manager, said.
A horrible tragedy occurred yesterday in Canada when a killer, later identified as a “trans identifying woman,” shot nine people to death and injured 27 others, before turning the gun on himself. The Canadian establishment has been desperate to hide the truth about the shooter, but this was not a secret the establishment could sit on.
The shooting took place at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in tiny Tumbler Ridge, a remote rural community in British Columbia. The killer began by murdering two people at a home, then headed for the secondary school (grades 7-12), where he opened fire. Six people died on school grounds, and one died en route
Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is bringing cursive back to schools.
Shapiro signed a bill requiring a cursive handwriting curriculum in all Pennsylvania public schools, Wednesday. The bill, introduced by Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Dane Watro, was co-sponsored by three Democrats and fifteen Republicans. “I’m definitely rusty, but I think my penmanship was okay!” Shapiro’s office wrote on Facebook, posting a photo of Shapiro’s cursive signature.
Pennsylvania’s former education secretary, Khalid Mumin, “said cursive instruction is not vital for public classrooms,” according to Penn Live Patriot-News.
An aide to New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani exploded at airline staff in a series of entitled social media rants, it has been revealed.
Mathis Roy Vigne, an advance man for the new leader of the city, used his X profile to berate workers from various airlines, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
The complaints ranged from ranting about airline staff over his business class seats and lounge access and for allegedly failing to serve him a drink.
Vigne, who previously interned for Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, handles publicity and events for Mamdani.
In one complaint dated December of 2019, he fumed at American Airlines for being denied lounge access
Ford announced significant financial losses for 2025 driven by its struggling electric vehicle division, with the automaker projecting continued losses in the segment for at least three more years.
The New York Times reports that Ford Motor Company reported substantial financial losses this week, primarily attributed to its electric vehicle operations, as the automaker significantly restructures its EV strategy. The company’s electric vehicle division lost $4.8 billion in 2025 and is projected to lose between $4 billion and $4.5 billion in 2026, with profitability not expected until approximately 2029.
The announcement marks a dramatic reversal for Ford, which several years ago positioned itself as a leader among traditional automakers by rapidly introducing
Mark Hamill is under fire from some "Star Wars" fans after his reported autograph prices sparked sticker shock and sharp criticism online. The actor, who played Luke Skywalker in multiple "Star Wars" films, is being slammed on social media over what critics say are sky-high fees for his signature at fan conventions. At Hamill’s signing table, a sign laid out the prices in bold lettering: "Mark Hamill – Autograph Prices." The sheet listed $400 for an 8-by-10 photo, $500 for premium items and $700 for bulky memorabilia, noting quantities are limited each day. While autograph pricing at expos has steadily climbed
'Snow White' Lost [GULP] How Much Money?
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You had to figure that Disney's live(ish)-action Snow White reboot would lose money, but even my eyes watered when I read this morning that the oft-derided musical lost about $170 million. But get this, had Disney not produced the movie in the U.K. — and received a reported $65 million (!!!) in tax credits — then Snow White would have lost the Mouse House a jaw-dropping $235 million...
...and entered the Hollywood Hall of Shame as one of the 10 biggest money-losing movie of all time, somewhere between Disney's 2012 stinker, John Carter, and Peter Berg's Battleship from the same year.
I could go over all the reasons
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D) on Wednesday announced a slew of new anti-ICE actions in the state, including an online portal encouraging state residents to upload cellphone videos and photos of ICE activity.
“ICE is making everyone less safe,” Sherrill posted on X, adding that the measures are necessary “to protect New Jerseyans.”
The governor said her first action was to sign an Executive Order banning ICE from conducting immigration enforcement on state property.
Other blue states and cities have attempted to implement similar laws or policies, including California, Illinois, Minnesota, and New Mexico, limiting ICE access to government-owned property, particularly locations like schools, healthcare facilities, and courthouses. Cities including Chicago, Richmond,
Judge Boasberg strikes again! On Thursday, he issued a follow-up to his December 22, 2025, order commanding the Trump administration to facilitate the return of those Tren de Aragua members who were removed from the U.S. in March and sent to El Salvador so that they can contest that removal. This one spells out what Boasberg expects the administration to do to remedy the situation. To review that December ruling, Boasberg, after determining that he has jurisdiction over the matter, ordered the administration to facilitate the plaintiffs' return to the U.S. to provide them "a meaningful opportunity" to contest their designation as TdA members and the proclamation’s validity.
New Yorkers are embracing a free market.
Hundreds of people lined up Thursday for a chance to shop at the city’s “first free grocery store” — launched by Polymarket as it and other prediction betting platforms face increased scrutiny from state regulators.
The West Village shop — an apparent nod to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s government-run grocery store pitch — drew more than 400 New Yorkers, who lined up hours ahead of the 2 p.m. opening, eager to fill blue tote bags with no-cost produce, nonperishables and toiletries. “Times are hard.
Kids’ hospital is told to continue gender
affirming care for minors after California
AG ruling 16 replies
affirming care for minors after California
AG ruling 16 replies
A San Diego children’s hospital has been ordered to continue providing gender-affirming care to minors —despite a previous effort from the hospital to end the programs to save its federal funding.
Rady Children’s Health must continue providing the care, which includes therapies like puberty-blockers and hormone treatments, to patients under 19 until at least March 10, in a ruling from San Diego Superior Court Judge Matthew Braner Wednesday.
The decision comes amid a heated legal fight between the hospital and the California Attorney General’s Office. The AJ sued Rady after it announced it would stop offering the treatments and procedures.
Judge Releases Four Illegal Immigrants
Convicted Of Murder, Child Sex Crimes
From ICE Custody 16 replies
Convicted Of Murder, Child Sex Crimes
From ICE Custody 16 replies
A federal judge released four illegal immigrants who were convicted of murder and child sex crimes from the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles for the Middle District of Louisiana, an Obama appointee, granted the defendants release from ICE custody, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. "The ramifications will only be the continued rape, murder, assault, and robbery of more American victims," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "Releasing these monsters is inexcusably reckless[.]"
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Concerns include abuse, neglect and sexual and other assaults. In one case, Maine Wire staff encountered a client living in unsanitary conditions in an unfinished house with caregivers "not proficient in the English language."