It is absolutely true that Nick Shirley’s one-day video blitz investigation of Somali daycares in Minnesota produced insufficient evidence to put anybody in jail.
It’s even possible that he made a mistake or two, although given what we already know, the preponderance of the evidence says that most of these daycares are shell companies that exist only to fleece the government. It’s not like Shirley’s video is the only evidence—the US Attorney is actively prosecuting cases, and now citizen journalists around the country are revealing fake Somali daycares.
The State of Minnesota has taken the database of daycares offline, and already, legislators in other states are scrambling to hide their own databases to prevent investigations by ordinary people.
BREAKING: In response to the massive daycare fraud being exposed by independent journalists using state websites, WA State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation to hide information about daycares and their operators from the public pic.twitter.com/YBwyiiXaVJ
— Ari Hoffman 🎗 (@thehoffather) December 31, 2025
The scale of the fraud is difficult to comprehend. Seriously, I don’t think people can wrap their heads around it because anything this large could only be accomplished with the implicit help of the government, and nobody likes the idea that the people whom they hand over a large percentage of their income to are helping others steal it.
But of course, that is what is happening. As the US Attorney for Minnesota has already revealed, somewhere around HALF of all Medicaid disbursements are fraudulent, the Feeding Our Future fraud was on a similar scale, and the daycare fraud has been known about for at least seven years. Law enforcement had videos proving fraud back in 2018, and even prosecuted a few fraudsters before giving up.
In other words, the Walz administration is in on the fraud. As I wrote yesterday in “They Can’t Even Keep Their Stories Straight,” the Walz administration tried to explain away a daycare without kids by claiming it was closed last week, but the daycare bused in kids the next day as proof they were open.
The gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
As expected, Pravda is rushing in to defend the government fraudsters, and they trot out “proof” that nothing is going on here. And what proof it is!
I'm not sure the viral critique of Minnesota day cares is totally accurate.
I am certain that *according to the government, there's no fraud in this government-funded program* is the farthest thing from journalism. https://t.co/cZHGXerblJ— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) December 31, 2025
Nothing to see here! The Walz administration says that everything is perfect!
This is what counts for hard-hitting journalism these days. When somebody accuses a lefty government official of wrongdoing, ask that lefty whether they are guilty. And if they say “No,” case closed.
To put just how bad the Pravda coverage of fraud in Minnesota is, let me present Exhibit A.
Here’s Senator Omar Fateh (D) celebrating with Feeding Our Future after they blocked the state from stopping fraudulent payments.
He even bragged about lobbying Tim Walz’s office to keep the money flowing.
Feeding Our Future went on to steal $250 MILLION from taxpayers. pic.twitter.com/8HpGUoCdru
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) December 31, 2025
You may remember Omar Fateh as the Somali candidate for Mayor who was endorsed by the Minneapolis Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party for Mayor…so fraudulently that the state party vacated his endorsement. He remained a candidate and was quite competitive, and ultimately lost because Mayor Jacob Frey was able to cobble together a coalition between white liberals and members of Somali clans hostile to Fateh’s.
Jacob Frey actually won a large section of the Somali community, there was huge division on clan lines. pic.twitter.com/4hu9OjIKSu
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) November 7, 2025
He was also an active participant in the Feeding Our Future scams, and his family has been involved in voter fraud. None of that came out in the campaign because everybody involved was complicit at some level. Frey needed Somali votes as much as Fateh did, and even campaigned in Somali himself.
Fateh is a State Senator, too.
Over a minute of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaking Somali to his constituents before he speaks English.
This is what a conquered man acts like.pic.twitter.com/sASLzoQ2id
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) December 29, 2025
During the campaign, I saw more appeals for votes from Frey spoken in Somali than in English. I am not kidding.
Minneapolis Mayor Frey tries not to puke as he eats Somali slop. So incredible.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 5, 2025
Tim Walz has doubled down on his commitment to Somalis, and of course, our Congresswoman Ilhan Omar regularly declares that her first loyalty is to Somalia (in Somali, of course). Our Lieutenant Governor, Peggy Flanagan, is running for US Senate and is now appearing in hijabs declaring her allegiance to Somalis.
YouTuber Nick Shirley decided to spend a night parked in a car at a public lot adjacent to the “learing” center.
Good thing he did.
He got a video of about 10 Somalis trying (vainly) to simply remove stickers of a wrong address on the door of that “daycare.”
After failing at that they made a copy machine page with the right address and taped it to the door.
Meanwhile they managed to try to harass Nick for simply witnessing their incompetence.