MN: Feds, state fraud investigators search autism centers

Source: Minnesota Star Tribune

“Federal and state authorities searched the autism service provider Iska, Inc. and several other sites in Minnesota on Thursday morning. An FBI spokesman said Thursday they are working with a handful of agencies on ‘court-authorized investigative activity.’ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Minnesota Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, criminal investigators at the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Postal Inspectors are involved in the investigations, the spokesman said. The FBI declined to provide additional details, citing an active investigation. But a spokesman for the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office said their office was involved with searching Iska on Thursday. The St. Louis Park-based business received more than $16.7 million in Medicaid funds between 2018 and 2025, according to state data.” (10/29/26)

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Thomas L. Knapp

Whether Bibi Stays or Goes, the “Special Relationship” Must End

Source: The American Conservative
by Luke Nicastro

“Because of what it reveals about Israel’s trajectory, the election presents an opportune moment to reassess the U.S.-Israel relationship. The conditions that led the Israeli government to successfully push for the Iran War, and for all of the other deleterious fruits of the partnership—the military aid (both direct and indirect), the integration of our respective national security establishments, the continued commitment of U.S. resources to a theater increasingly peripheral to our grand strategy, the diplomatic cover for war crimes—are structural in nature. No plausible change from within Israeli society is going to end them.” (10/29/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/whether-bibi-stays-or-goes-the-special-relationship-must-end/

Thomas L. Knapp

Bottoms ran Atlanta into the ground; we can’t let her do it to Georgia

Source: Fox News
by Gianno Caldwell

“In 2020, Atlanta police investigated 157 homicides, up from 99 the year before. That was the most the city had seen in more than two decades, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The next year was worse. Shootings climbed right along with the killings. Even CNN couldn’t ignore it. It reported that by early July 2020, Atlanta had logged 282 shooting incidents, up 19% from the same point a year earlier, citing Atlanta police data. By June 2021, the number of people shot in the city was up another 38%. More than 200 officers left the Atlanta Police Department in 2020 alone. Then-Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms did not have the backs of the Atlanta police, nor did she have the backs of Atlanta’s most vulnerable citizens who depended on her for their safety. Her tenure as mayor left the city reeling as crime exploded and hundreds were killed. That is a serious dereliction of duty.” (10/29/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gianno-caldwell-bottoms-ran-atlanta-ground-cant-let-her-do-it-georgia

Steve Trinward

Sabotage PAC that infiltrated Libertarian Party launches new effort to exploit Massie

Source: Independent Political Report

“The [Republican “infiltrated and neuter” operation] Mises Caucus has launched a political organization called the American Liberty Party, with one of the new group’s first objectives being to recruit Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky to run for president in 2028. The effort was launched Tuesday, October 27, by Mises Caucus founder and former chair Michael Heise, who wrote on X that he had spent the past couple of months reaching out to figures within the America First movement about forming a new political group. Heise said the effort is intended to provide flexibility to support ‘legitimately good’ primary candidates while also building an organization that could direct its limited resources toward areas where they would have the greatest impact.” [editor’s note: If Massie is smart — and he seems to be — he’ll avoid these grifters like the plague – TLK] (10/29/26)

https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2026/10/mises-caucus-launches-american-liberty-party-seeks-to-draft-thomas-massie-for-president/

Thomas L. Knapp

No One Has a Plan for American Decline

Source: Foreign Policy
by Nick Danforth

“America’s geopolitical power is crumbling, and that shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. Hegemons, after all, rise and fall. Yet nobody in U.S. politics or punditry seems to actually want to talk about the consequences, especially for the American people. When it comes to decline, they either believe it won’t happen or won’t matter—in other words, that America can’t decline or that Americans will be just fine if it does.” (10/29/26)

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Thomas L. Knapp