Posted on 01/01/2026 5:23:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.
“My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking,” State AG Nick Brown stated. “We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers. Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation. Neither is filming minors who may be in the home. This is unsafe and potentially dangerous behavior.”
Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil rights, issued a warning of her own in reaction to the Washington state AG’s post.
“ANY state official who chills or threatens to chill a journalist’s 1A rights will have some ‘splainin to do,” she wrote on X, Wednesday morning. “[The DOJ Civil Rights Division] takes potential violations of 18 USC § 242 seriously!” Dhillon added.
This statute, known as the Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, makes it a crime for any person acting under the pretense of law to willfully deprive another individual of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
The clash of the AGs came after Youtuber Nick Shirley exposed about a dozen Somali-owned, state-funded childcare facilities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that appeared to be completely deserted.
Shirley produced a 42-minute video, which has been viewed over 131 million times on X since it was posted on December 26, alleging that Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) “knew about the fraud but never reported it.”
Inspired by Shirley’s bombshell report, citizen journalists in multiple states with large Somali populations have launched their own investigations in recent days.
In the Kent, Washington area Tuesday, YouTuber Chris Sims, a self-described “gonzo journalist,” visited seven suspicious Somali childcare sites and reported that they were “very unhappy” to see him.
Sims posted a video of him approaching a private home listed as a childcare facility that appeared to be not as advertised.
“There was no sign of kids or being a Daycare facility,” Sims wrote. “I was told by a few they weren’t Daycares despite receiving tax payer dollars. One yelled ‘Call the police’ behind the door.”
On Monday, independent journalists Jonathan Choe and Cam Higby visited an alleged Somali daycare facility in Seattle that receives hundreds of thousands in taxpayers funds and the person who answered the door said there was no daycare there in the past or present.
Higby said “Dhagash Childcare” has received over $210,000 just this year alone.
Another listed childcare facility, a house in a residential neighborhood in Kent, Washington, has received over $863,000 since 2023, according to Higby.
“Residents say there IS NO DAYCARE HERE,” the journalist said.
Another reporter reporting on potential fraud in the Rainier Vista neighborhood of Seattle on December 29th, faced hostile reactions from the Somali residents, who called the police on him.
In his statement, the Washington State AG encouraged members of the Somali community “experiencing threats or harassment” to call the police or his office’s Hate Crimes & Bias Incident Hotline or report it to the state’s hate crime website.
Addressing the independent journalists, Brown added: “If you think fraud is happening, there are appropriate measures to report and investigate. Go to DCYF’s website to learn more. And where fraud is substantiated and verified by law enforcement and regulatory agencies, people should be held accountable.”
The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo responded to Brown’s threat on X, saying: “It is the duty of journalists to visit taxpayer-funded nonprofits and businesses to investigate where you have failed. The journalists have documented their visits on camera and there is no harassing or threatening behavior. You are trying to threaten journalists by telling people to call police with false allegations of a hate crime.”
Nick Shirley reports that he is receiving death threats:
“YouTuber Nick Shirley has reported receiving death threats following the release of his viral 42-minute exposé.
During an appearance on the ‘PBD Podcast,’ Shirley stated that people have warned him he will be ‘Kirked.’
He expressed concern for his family’s safety, noting that his sister has been contacted by journalists and that his home address and his father’s identity were doxxed by an Indian news outlet.”
I would like to know why tax dollars are being used to pay for ANYONE’s daycare, period. The whole thing is absurd on its face!
According to leftist ideology the only reason you are even allowed to live is so you can work and your wages be looted to pay for everything for people who hate you.
Thanks for playing!
Yes, sadly.
This is going to get really interesting. I just saw a report by Liz Collin on this. Collin is a very good reporter who did reporting work on St. George of Fentanyl.
Gonna lay in a supply of popcorn...
Absolutely!
And now we have our stake in the ground for the mid-terms.
I had a friend who used to say *Welfare was never meant to be a career choice*.
And it has become that.
“”””So incredibly over the target. This is the systemic nationwide fraud Musk alluded to on Rogan after the first weeks of DOGE had concluded.””””
As a regular FReeper reader and poster, I have noticed that the Somali Daycare Grift has so dominated the news that I find myself forgetting what were the other top news stories prior to Saturday Dec 27, 2025.
Oh,dear!! A sternly worded warning against the traitorous rantings of Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown. That should have him quaking in his shoes. \sarc
Perhaps, if she looks on her desk, AG Blondi [sic] can find an arrest warrant for Brown on the charge of conspiracy to overthrow the Constitution of the United States.
Battle lines are forming. 🚧🤷
Battle lines are forming. 🚧🤷
Yep. That’s a good way of putting it. They’re making straight up thug threats.
I don’t understand how Washington State became such a center of cluster-f***ery.
The left’s attitude towards the 1A at any given moment is determined solely by whether it helps or hurts their revolution.
Original number - $700 million missing, with links to West Africa. Nigeria - if I recall correctly.
The number came down to about $200 million after several more audits.
Nobody complained - because, this is Hard Left Seattle.
The Director of the responsible state agency refused to testify under oath, and resigned.
President Biden gave her a new government job in Washington D.C.
The Seattle Times stopped reporting on the story, and it just disappeared from view.
The DNC has to protect its laundries.
That’s I don’t get. We have power now and we couldn’t even “destroy the country” not if we wanted to, so vote do the liberals have all this power if they get control? I get the deep state and the swamp that has infiltrated govt entities, but not is the time to root that out, so if our when liberals get in control they can’t do what happened during Obama and Biden.
Never give up the Con, and attack with the legal machinery of the fascist state government.
We need to make it so that state “crimes” can be federally pardoned.
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